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joeisawesome wrote:

And don't forget 100% joeisawesome!

And 100% rdococ!

juststickman wrote:

I don't really think it's worth it. I'm in the UK and I don't really care about color-colour differences.

Agreed - we are quite capable of making allowances for our poorly educated colonial cousins 

Colour and color isnt that bigger difference, so why should we worry about it? If color meant something completely different to colour, then I would agree that we would have to do something about it, but since the only thing not the same is one has a U and the the other doesnt, its not something to get worried about. I live in the UK, and it is annoying sometimes when I see the word 'color' but thats just someting we have to live with. 

Here is a random text picture                      Britain
picture of the british empire.    ________________________________________
                                           |      |              |        |                         |
                            Australia          |               |    Canada (very big)       |
                                                  |              |                                   |
                                                   |            New Zealand                    |
                                            America                                               |
                                                                                                  Lots of ton of
                                                                                         other countries, and
                                                                            took over some large countries.

Last edited by arthurz (2010-11-23 13:54:53)

I'm Canadian, but I really don't see the point, I mean, half the time I find myself writing the American way anyway... 

The difference between American and English is so minute, that before they even consider translation, the Scratch Team should wait about 400 years until English has changed and become a completely different language.  It's not that hard to know the difference between "meter" and "metre", as well as "color" or "colour", or "center" and "centre".  Besides, the Scratch Team is working on other things, like Scratch 2.0.

Mayhem wrote:

Agreed - we are quite capable of making allowances for our poorly educated colonial cousins.

You wish. Think of it.  13 tiny, little colonies fighting off against the largest empire in the world.     But really,Don't insult the population in the U.S. of A. just because we spell many words more shortly.

So, for now, I'd like the Scratch Team to work on 2.0, instead of tiny differances in spelling. (or how you'd spell it, "diffrences"    )

Last edited by Rexpup (2011-03-07 17:21:07)

rdococ wrote:

Of what?
Hmm... This is a good idea, but there are not many changes.
The only changes (or is it changez?) are:
Color is spelled Colour.
US is UK
us is still us for the upper

also i america they spell:mum, as: mom

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Translation: Wow! You're going to Cambridge? That's a great college!

coolstuff wrote:

registeel wrote:

10 % antartica

Any Canadians? I wonder who the antarticans are... I know Zelda123 "lives" there

supercoolguy does

a1130 wrote:

Canadians, from what I know (one of my friends used to live there), usually use American English spellings. However, in formal occasions, they usually use British English spellings.

I live in Canada, and we use the UK spellings. 

I wish there were some sort of "International English." Right now, we have American English, British English, Australian English, Indian English (well, it's more of an accent, but there are some pronunciation and spelling differences too), Singapore English (again, more of an accent- a variant British speaking and spelling ways), and then variants in smaller countries, etc.

There are people from India, Singapore, UK, US, Australia, and from other countries with their own variants or English that go on Scratch. Not many people complained about the American English spellings, right? There are only minute differences in spellings, for example (no offense):

color/colour (similar to French)
anything ending with -ize in US English/-ise in UK English
center/centre
offense/offence

and so on.

Last edited by a1130 (2011-08-04 13:05:44)