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Socoder -> Off Topic -> Americanised vs Americanized |
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| Sat, 02 Feb 2013, 16:31 | |
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dna |
I chose Colour since Britain hosted the Olympics and did a wonderful job.
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| Sat, 02 Feb 2013, 16:31 | |
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dna |
Actually the british spelling is correct. Our american version is the basterized spelling.
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| Sat, 02 Feb 2013, 17:01 | |
steve_ancell
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I voted colour too, plainly coz I was raised in the UK. |edit| I suppose spelling it as color also has it's uses though, such as saving a bit of disk space when writing source code in most proggy-lingos. |edit| |
| Sat, 02 Feb 2013, 17:06 | |
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dna |
All that worry over disk space? Saving one byte at a time. -=-=- DNA |
| Sat, 02 Feb 2013, 17:07 | |
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steve_ancell
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It don't worry me personally but it is evident that it must save some space due to one less character in a word.
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| Sat, 02 Feb 2013, 17:10 | |
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steve_ancell
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AMSTRAD did well though by using INK & PEN instead of the keyword COLOUR.
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| Sat, 02 Feb 2013, 18:12 | |
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dna |
Yes. That was years ago and was necessary due to memory sizes. These days progammers use up bytes like mad, going through verbose names that may be unecessary. Example: Those were the days when tiny could powerful -=-=- DNA |
| Sat, 02 Feb 2013, 18:15 | |
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CodersRule |
I propose some overflow: auto up in this forum.
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| Sun, 03 Feb 2013, 02:16 | |
Jayenkai
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No need, just a little power-usage. ....And banning when people do it on purpose.
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