Irrational HatredPeople who say "less" when they mean "fewer" ought to be turned into soup, the soup fed to baboons and the baboons fired into an active volcano. What has you grinding your teeth with rage, and why?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 14:36)
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Set Language AmericanThere's a mainframe-based product IBM developed in Warwick called "Application System", or AS for short (it was subsequently sold off to the company that handled the training). It started off as something they ran on their bureau service, but they subsequently started selling it.
AS naturally spoke the right sort of English but it was multilingual, so enter a "SET LANGUAGE" command, and it would communicate with you in one of the supported languages. Version 1 of the product supported a language called "American" which allowed you to do things like spell "colour" in the American way as "color", for instance.
The product was rather good. It was in competition with a US-written product called IC/1 which sucked. AS, quite rightly, won out much to the distain of the folks in the US and the amusement of folks here. However, someone (probably in the US) aparently objected to the "SET LANGUAGE AMERICAN" command as it disappeared from version 2.
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