Some would argue that American English is the more pure form of English, as in many cases it is actually closer to our once common language. For instance, the -ize ending favoured by the Americans is actually the tradition British spelling from the 1600s; it is since the fork that the British have come to use -ise instead. During the 1800s and beyond there was a very strong movement in the states towards keeping their language as close to its "correct" parent as possible.
Just because we spoke it first doesn't give us some special rights over it. Language is open source, hurray!
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/13/messag es/785.html
Just set up a VPN server on your computer, then get your friends to set up a VPN connection on their machines to your IP. Only allow access to trusted clients.
I agree, the project is insane. It is inherently inaccurate and unmaintainable in the long term.
A9 certainly has some very nice features, my problem with it is that these features slow the whole thing down so much (at least over the lake here is Australia). After being used to the lightning speed of Google I find myself impatient with A9.
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I'm with you here, the story seemed to be nothing more than an unfocused rant.
Some would argue that American English is the more pure form of English, as in many cases it is actually closer to our once common language. For instance, the -ize ending favoured by the Americans is actually the tradition British spelling from the 1600s; it is since the fork that the British have come to use -ise instead. During the 1800s and beyond there was a very strong movement in the states towards keeping their language as close to its "correct" parent as possible. Just because we spoke it first doesn't give us some special rights over it. Language is open source, hurray! http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/13/messag es/785.html
Sure, if you'll translate the rest of the web into British English for me.
Just set up a VPN server on your computer, then get your friends to set up a VPN connection on their machines to your IP. Only allow access to trusted clients.
I agree, the project is insane. It is inherently inaccurate and unmaintainable in the long term. A9 certainly has some very nice features, my problem with it is that these features slow the whole thing down so much (at least over the lake here is Australia). After being used to the lightning speed of Google I find myself impatient with A9.