[WikiEN-l] Re: Announcing a policy proposal

Tue May 17 00:29:49 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway wrote:

>Delirium said:
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>>Sj wrote:
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>>>Zhengzhu's script for maintaining side-by-side traditional and
>>>simplified chinese articles should work just as well for side-by-side
>>>US and Queen's English articles.  We should try that out...
>>>      
>>>
>>I believe at some point en: made a rough decision that we were willing
>>to put up with a non-preferred version of color/colour for the sake of
>>not introducing unnecessary complexity.
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>Orthography aside, the languages are very closely bound because of
>American TV and movies.  
>
Orthogrphy is of no consequence in a medium designed to appeal to the 
illiterate.

Ec