Board Thread:Admin Announcements/@comment-5843134-20140803080907/@comment-24026943-20140806015044

UCS123 wrote: Sabovia wrote: Prince of Prussia wrote: Look, I'm American by birth, and I have a north American Micronation. I suppose I speak " American English" And I have heard British English, seen its spellings, and how it is used in speach, because I have dated a Scottish girl. She was full well able to understand what I was saying as I was able to understand her. All I am saying, is that each of us English users, have different ways of writting and speaking the language. If you were taught English the British way, amazing, you can actually use it properly. If you were taught the American way, great, I was. But since all in all... its ENGLISH. I put out there that we just use native English. Each of use use the language differently.. and thats what makes us unique... why change that? Just because someone doesn't like the way things are written, or spelled? I have seen American and British English articles that are improper... so.. why would it matter which way it is written? I honestly people are missing the point of the British English rule. It was added to avoid confusion between words, "Football" would replace "Soccer" and "American Football" would replace "Football". And that's what is was going to effect, just double meaning words. But it turned into a wiki-wide "all content on pages must be written in this language" rule.

Whether your "girlfriend" could understand spoken word is irrelevant, this is written word we're talking about. Well when you use those different words in an article, you will be able to differentiate what type of "football" is being talked about when put into context. I don't think there will be any confusion. And if people do happen to be confuse, they can just look and see what type of English the article is written in. If it's written in American English, then most likely the article is talking about American Football. A idea I have that the pages should have a template that says "This article is writen in American Enlish", or "This article is written in British English", etc.). That way users will know right away if they are talking about Soccer (Football) or Football (American Football).