[WikiEN-l] Re: Announcing a policy proposal

Tue May 17 12:43:08 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> Delirium said:
> 
>> Sj wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Orthography aside, the languages are very closely bound because of 
> American TV and movies.  It would be a tragic duplication of effort
> to produce dual versions

I don't think anyone is talking about "duplication of effort". I,
personally, would advocate the use of a new syntax to mark the differing
words. If I remember correctly, the syntax used in zh is
-{traditional|simplified}-, so why not simply have -{labor|labour}-?

Timwi