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To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel L Speyer <dspeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx>, freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx, bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] spelling fixes (PR#1526)
From: Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:21:50 -0700

scripsit Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
> Em Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 09:15:23AM -0700, Thanasis Kinias escreveu:
> > On further reflection, Daniel is quite right.  I apologize for reflexive
> > Anglocentrism ;) 
> 
> Thank you sir 8)
> 
> > But I do find it amusing that it was Connectiva to bring this up.
> 
> Why? We are a Brazilian company, trying to make Open Source software
> affordable to non-english speakers :-)

I thought it amusing that none of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand,
South African, U.K., or U.S. Freecivers came up with a patch to do
correct English ordinals.  It is a commentary not on your excellent work
but on the failure of the anglophones to do it first.

> Ah, and another clarification, its Conectiva, with just one N, that is
> another anglocentrism ;)

Today seems to be my day for apologies ;)

-- 
Thanasis Kinias
Web Developer, Information Technology
Graduate Student, Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.

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