01-03-2004 02:04									#1
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We now not only have our own CivGroup, but also our own project-specific news page!

News items for this news page, intended for all major and minor Source Code Project related news, can be submitted by anyone who's a member of the Source Code Project CivGroup. So the news is made by YOU! When you've submitted your news, it will need to be approved by a news editor, to allow for some basic quality control, but we can appoint as many of these news editors as necessary, always ensuring that your news will be posted fast.

If anyone wants to help out by becoming a news editor, please let me know. It would be good to have at least three of them (but there's no harm in having more), preferably from different time zones (at least 1 European and 1 American). It won't involve anything more than approving (or rejecting) other people's news items, making sure they're on-topic, non-trivial and not too ridden with bad spelling/grammar/etc.

Last edited by Locutus on 01-03-2004 at 02:10

	01-03-2004 04:20									#2
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it's really great that there is now a source-code porject only news page
this will help the development fo shizzles

i could be editor, my english is good

	01-03-2004 05:09									#3
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I will take a look but I won’t be able to spot many spelling mistakes.

	01-03-2004 05:54									#4
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quote: I will take a look but I won’t be able to spot many spelling mistakes.

I think that might be the first sentence I've ever seen you write that didn't have a spelling mistake!

	01-03-2004 05:58									#5
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It's funny 'cause it's true

	01-03-2004 15:01									#6
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Don't bash him to much, otherwise we won't have any good graphics anymore

And Locutus,

if you wan't I can try to be an editor. (although me English not perfect )

	01-03-2004 15:24									#7
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It's ok I am English and even i can't spell that good

and Peter Triggs is right .

	01-03-2004 16:31									#8
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And as you are English, you don't even know how to spell, sounds normal

But wasn't English one of the easier languages

	01-03-2004 18:36									#9
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It has something to do with my insanity

and the spell checker

	01-03-2004 18:59									#10
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quote: It has something to do with my insanity

I think I can speak for everyone on this board:

We are all insane,as the first oen claiming to be sane is the most insane person there.

spell checker.........yeah great.......which one the American version or the English one...........

	01-03-2004 20:22									#11
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the micro$oft English one

	01-03-2004 20:27									#12
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It isn't to bad, come on..........I never trusted American ones

You know it actually throws me off, when I see words like neighbour being spelled neighbor..........I am thrown off...........and I am not English

	01-03-2004 23:36									#13
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try making a web page i don't know how to spell colour anymore, or is that color

	02-03-2004 01:47									#14
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quote: Originally posted by The Big Mc try making a web page i don't know how to spell colour anymore, or is that color

It is color, I just consulted my Latin-German dictionary and it told me that the old Romans spelled it like that, too. I never understood why an additional u was inserted.

quote: Originally posted by Gilgamensch But wasn't English one of the easier languages

For newcomers yes, but not for advancers, you know no complicated grammer not much forms to learn, the downside of this is that you need auxiliary words to express some catogories, well this is simple but you can also use word order to make something clear, and that's not so obvious.

But in comparison to French it is easier, in French you have to learn actual two languages, the written language and the spoken language. Usually the written language preserves the pronunciation of a word in extreme cases for centuries. Well that is actual true for all languages sooner or later.

Finally as it should "not too ridden with bad spelling/grammar/etc" well that is something different than it should be free of that and if I consinder how much time Locutus has, I can do the job, well as long as I don't have to be present everyday. So indead it would be good to have some more people to do this job.

-Martin

	02-03-2004 04:10									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Martin Gühmann It is color, I just consulted my Latin-German dictionary and it told me that the old Romans spelled it like that, too. I never understood why an additional u was inserted. -Martin

Martin it is spelled colour in the Oxford English dictionary. (which as everybody knows is the book with all the true English words in) . I really want a difference between American and the true English language.

	02-03-2004 05:32									#16
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this maybe straying OT
but it is "colour" ok!

	02-03-2004 13:41									#17
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The word colour is actually based on the French word Couleur.

But during the test of time it had been changed to colour. The Americans tried to simplify it again (dropping everywhere the ou against o ) and made color out of it, which as Martin mentioned, is going back to its root.

quote: Martin it is spelled colour in the Oxford English dictionary. (which as everybody knows is the book with all the true English words in) . I really want a difference between American and the true English language.

I hope you also know how to pronounce it with the nice Oxford accent (by the way pronounce is also based on French/Latin )

	02-03-2004 15:02									#18
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wrong part of the country

	02-03-2004 20:02									#19
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Sure... why not?

I'd be up for this. I've written for my school paper (ok, that was years ago, but its like falling off a bike, right?) I edited a company newsletter too, FWIW.

	02-03-2004 21:56									#20
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nicely put back on track Mr.Baggins
And thanks for showing us the 'colour' of your money by volunteering - i'm too busy to take this one up (and a bad speller to boot!)

	02-03-2004 23:53									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Gilgamensch which as Martin mentioned, is going back to its root.

And you are sure that is the root, well I also found a version marked as unclassic or preclassic: colos note that the last o was a long o in comparision to the first one.

quote: Originally posted by Gilgamensch I hope you also know how to pronounce it with the nice Oxford accent (by the way pronounce is also based on French/Latin )

And you are sure it is bases on Latin pronunciation, how do you know how Mr. Caesar pronounced all the words he wrote into his "Commentarii de bello gallico", do you have an audio record? At least it is clear that all the letters where pronounced and that the additional u had its eligibility. And finally each letter hadn't an arbitrary meaning maybe some modification rhules like in front of letter A pronounce letter B like this and else like that. But actual that wasn't in the sense of the inventor, the intention was you write what you speak and not what you write what was spoken 1000 years ago. Unfortunatly all written language has the tendency to become something different over the ages than the spoken language. One way to deal with it is modifying the alphabet, actual it is done very easily, because the speakers don't recognise it. So over time a becomes u, u becomes yu and so on. The only problem is that not necessary all words do this sound shift, or you take words from other languages after the sound shift but don't change their spelling and vola you have inconsistencies.

Well I think I should stop now.

-Martin

	03-03-2004 02:28									#22
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I second the motion for Martin to stop

	03-03-2004 02:33									#23
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So have we decided if the news is going to be in English, Latin or Aramaic, yet?

	03-03-2004 02:34									#24
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English not American

	03-03-2004 02:34									#25
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Well thats ok... although I am bilingual

	03-03-2004 07:32									#26
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uh, maybe i'll the the only one to vote this way but American English is much better

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	03-03-2004 13:23									#27
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HuangShang,
Read your PMs (your confirmation is required).

Last edited by Locutus on 03-03-2004 at 14:01

	05-03-2004 04:04									#28
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Gilgamensch and HuangShang have been appointed as news editors. More editors may be appointed in the future, depending on how things go. Thanks to everyone who offered themselves for this

I deliberately went for people who are not programmers, as I know many non-programmers are very eager to make themselves more useful for this project -- this is the chance for two of them to do so.

	05-03-2004 04:33									#29
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Good thinking Loc
And it is good to have our news section now