Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'english.': 0.04; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'important,': 0.07; 'emulate': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject: [': 0.09; 'subject:language': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; 'discussion.': 0.16; 'enlighten': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject: \n ': 0.16; 'then?': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'stick': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'appear': 0.29; 'subject:) ': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'with,': 0.31; 'stuff': 0.32; 'subject:]': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'most': 0.60; 'name': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'american': 0.66; 'world': 0.66; 'programs,': 0.74; 'subject:Practices': 0.84; 'dream': 0.95 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: (Still OT) Nationalism, language and monoculture [was Re: Python Worst Practices] Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 20:10:52 +0000 References: <8761ak7kxm.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87sido6491.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <6d6033b8-d228-4f5f-ac68-ae5b2a226431@googlegroups.com> <87d24regm6.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <54f4763c$0$12979$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87twy34dst.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <726afahrhnim716av2dnckrsd9n5j5kukj@4ax.com> <21dafa533nrsmktshd35kdbd13ahgj50bf@4ax.com> <87fv9k2999.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <54f7599d$0$12988$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <8761ag36du.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-31-244.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 In-Reply-To: <8761ag36du.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.19 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 27 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1425499862 news.xs4all.nl 2959 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:34476 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:86914 On 04/03/2015 19:33, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Steven D'Aprano : > >> Care to enlighten us then? Because your anecdote doesn't appear to >> have even the most tenuous relationship to this discussion. > > English-speaker, when you name things in your Python programs, you had > better stick to American spellings. > > Even more important, when you talk about Python or other computer stuff > to a non-English-speaker, try to emulate the accent most people around > the world are most familiar with, American English. If you find that > overwhelming, try to speak like a BBC newsreader. Your native accent can > be very difficult to understand. > > > Marko > This sums up perfectly why you made it onto my dream team so quickly. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence