Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>: > >> 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.
Yes, that's exactly what I thought your point was. So I am utterly perplexed why you said: "No, the ultimate irony is that people don't understand what is being talked about." and gave an irrelevant anecdote about using a source's claim to divinity as evidence of divinity. It seems to me that people in this thread *do* understand what is being talked about, but just disagree with your conclusion about making American English the mandatory spelling for programs. As for your comments about spoken accents, I sympathise. But changing accents is very hard for most people (although a very few people find it incredibly easy). Even professionals typically need to have voice coaches to teach them to change accents successfully. One of the problems is that most people don't hear their own accent. My wife usually has a fairly generic English accent that most people think is American, but within seconds of beginning to talk to another Irish person she is speaking in a full-blown Irish accent, and she is *completely* unaware of it. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
