Should TMW use British English or American English?

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Should TMW use British English or American English?

British English
18
43%
American English
18
43%
Ænglisc
3
7%
Middle English
3
7%
 
Total votes: 42
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Should TMW use British English or American English?

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We need to decide on which variant, or else we could have more inconsistencies in the future with NPC scripts.
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British English, 'cos its the original English!
Too many Americans can't spell. :x
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Ben141 wrote:British English, 'cos its the original English!
Too many Americans can't spell. :x
Its not... we could say Old English is original though. Lets see our developers learn that :P

I will be doing all my coding and content in American English, if we do decide to use British. So one will just have to translate my work.
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speak english in public is the rule

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i won't vote

whatever the english form, way (american or english) i'll still learn and translate :)

anyway

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SORRY guys, I dont understand the voting...

What the hell is Middle and AE English???

How can I vote, if i dont know the differences betwenn the options...?
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I don't know what defferences are. :P

Maybe... I'm learning American English :wink:

but I won't vote because even if it was decided on British English, I can speak only American English. :lol:
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swimmy wrote:I don't know what defferences are. :P
The differences are marginal. It's mostly the spelling. The british are writing colour, the american color, for example.

There are also a few words which are different. British cars tank "petrol", american cars "gas".

We were using american english in the sourcecode until now. I think it would be a waste of time to change the spelling everywhere and for consistency and to avoid confusion we should use the same spelling for texts displayed to the user.
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List of dialects of the English language

Though for simplicity, we could just use E-Prime English. :P
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Crush wrote:
swimmy wrote:I don't know what defferences are. :P
The differences are marginal. It's mostly the spelling. The british are writing colour, the american color, for example.

There are also a few words which are different. British cars tank "petrol", american cars "gas".

We were using american english in the sourcecode until now. I think it would be a waste of time to change the spelling everywhere and for consistency and to avoid confusion we should use the same spelling for texts displayed to the user.
You have persuade me. I vote for American English!!! Oher ideas are absolute nonsense. Why should someone translate it to British English...
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Ginaria wrote:SORRY guys, I dont understand the voting...

What the hell is Middle and AE English???

How can I vote, if i dont know the differences betwenn the options...?
Ænglisc is Ancient English's proper name. The very word "English" comes from the word Ænglisc. Ænglisc is named after the germanic tribe of the Angles, who were the ones to first speak the language, and the people who founded England (Ængaland). This is also why the French word for English is Anglais. ;)

Middle English is the language that was spoken in England during the Renaissance period, and the language that gave birth to the Scots and English languages.
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BRITISH ENGLISH = REAL ENGLISH
AMERICAN ENGLISH = RUBBISH
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