[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] spelling fixes (PR#1526)

[Miguel Farah <miguel@xxxxx>]

 Daniel L Speyer [03/06/2002 11:19] dijo/said:
>On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Thanasis Kinias wrote:
>[...]
>> If you're patching, I would recommend following the usage of the Chicago
>> Manual of Style, which is 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, etc.  This isn't the most
>> common in popular writing, but (for American English at least) is the
>> preferred style for formal writing.  
>> 
>
>In the beginning there was Unix, and Unix spoke, and it said "Hello
>world!".  It did not say "Hello United States of America" nor "Hello
>English speakers."...

You *are* aware that the Hello World program is older than Unix, aren't
you?

>Seriously, though, we should try to handle this generally enough to
>support at least all the languages we're currently translated
>to.  Hardcoding english's quirks seems like a very bad move.

I concur.