Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.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 0.006 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'english,': 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; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; 'programs.': 0.14; 'none.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; ':-)': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'fit': 0.20; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; "shouldn't": 0.24; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'point': 0.28; 'bigger': 0.30; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'minor': 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'everyone': 0.33; 'trouble': 0.34; 'problem': 0.35; 'no,': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'are,': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'effort': 0.37; 'too': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'rather': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'everybody': 0.60; 'expression': 0.60; 'voice': 0.60; 'our': 0.64; 'office,': 0.64; 'stand': 0.64; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'american': 0.66; 'home': 0.69; 'subject:Practices': 0.84; 'british': 0.87 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Python Worst Practices Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 16:38:57 +0000 References: <87ioem8ftg.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <54f2c9c6$0$12991$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <8761ak7kxm.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-78-147-181-195.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 In-Reply-To: <8761ak7kxm.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: 37 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1425227946 news.xs4all.nl 2884 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:45996 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:86659 On 01/03/2015 16:16, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Steven D'Aprano : > >> Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >>> Learn it like everybody else has to. >> >> Stockholm Syndrome :-) >> >> "I learned English, and so everyone else should too." > > No, the point is that if everybody else has taken the trouble of > learning American English, it shouldn't be too much to ask for the > British to make an effort as well. > > You can watch TV programmes at home, but in the office, you should be > writing Python programs. > > (Spelling deviations are actually minor nuisances. A bigger problem is > when a Brit thinks they can use their home accent in international > contexts.) > > > Marko > Are you suggesting that we Brits have a single "home accent"? If you are, you need to stand up as your voice is rather muffled. That by the way is a British expression that may or may not be used around the Commonwealth. Should we unlearn it to fit in with American English? Two chances, zero or none. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence