[bksvol-discuss] Re: designating language of a book

A lot of the spelling of words is different.  I met a man from England who got 
a job in the US, and he talked about having to get used to our spellings on his 
computer.


Sue S.


From: Valerie Maples 
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 12:13 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: designating language of a book

While they are "kissing cousins", there are strong vocabulary and grammar 
differences, enough, IMHO, to warrant a different label.  Again, my preference 
would be that default be set to all languages instead of American English 
only...
 
Valerie


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From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, April 3, 2012 8:42:03 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: designating language of a book

I don't like the fact that British and American English are treated as 
different languages, but there are differences nevertheless. In the interest of 
truth in advertizing I think the difference should be indicated. I also think 
it might not be a bad idea to just lump British and American English together 
as English, but as long as they are labeled differently I wouldn't want a book 
in British English falsely represented as in American English.

On 4/3/2012 3:38 AM, Cindy wrote: 
  Are we to   continue to indicate when a book's English is UK or, since some 
books so indicated don't get found when searched for (unless a person remembers 
to change the language in the search to Any), or should we just designate it as 
 U.S., which seems to be the default


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