On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:08:24 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> You can't say that it cost you £10 to courier your résumé to the head >> office of Encyclopædia Britanica to apply for the position of Staff >> Coördinator. > > True, but if it cost you $10 (or 10 GBP) to courier your curriculum > vitae to the head office of Encyclopaedia Britannica to become Staff > Coordinator, then you'd be fine. And if it cost you $10 to post your > work summary to Britannica's administration to apply for this Staff > Coordinator position, you could say it without 'e' too. Doesn't mean you > don't need Unicode!
Back in the late 1970's, the economy and the outlook in the USA sucked, and the following joke made the rounds: Mr. Smith: Good morning, Mr. Jones. How are you? Mr. Jones: I'm fine. (The humor is that Mr. Jones had his head so far [in the sand] that he thought that things were fine.) American English is my first spoken language, but I know enough French, Greek, math, and other languages that I am very happy to have more than ASCII these days. I imagine that even Steven's surname should be spelled D’Aprano rather than D'Aprano. Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
