I don't like that the search defaults to U.S. English, and I wish engineering would change that to be "any language."
However, as a proofreader, I do appreciate knowing that a book is British vs American in it's language. It makes a difference when looking for common scannos, such as missing periods or extra periods that happen when an older book has lots of extraneous spots on the pages that get picked up as periods or as other punctuation. Then the difference can be helpful. In the British English, for example, there isn't a period after the words Mr or Mrs, while in American English there is, so I wouldn't look for a period to be in place after the word Mr if I knew the book was British.
Judy s. On 4/3/2012 7:42 AM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote:
I don't like the fact that British and American English are treated as different languages, but there are differences nevertheless. In the interest of truth in advertizing I think the difference should be indicated. I also think it might not be a bad idea to just lump British and American English together as English, but as long as they are labeled differently I wouldn't want a book in British English falsely represented as in American English.On 4/3/2012 3:38 AM, Cindy wrote:Are we to continue to indicate when a book's English is UK or, since some books so indicated don't get found when searched for (unless a person remembers to change the language in the search to Any), or should we just designate it as U.S., which seems to be the defaultCindyJoin us in celebrating our 10^th Anniversary! <http://blog.bookshare.org/2012/03/11/join-bookshares-worldwide-10th-anniversary-celebration/><http://blog.bookshare.org/2012/03/11/join-bookshares-worldwide-10th-anniversary-celebration/> TinyURL.com/752cyrs
