[bksvol-discuss] Re: designating language of a book
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 17:43:06 -0700 (PDT)
I When we proofreaders take a book from the checkout list it's only by clicking
on the title and reading what's there that we know the language the book is in,
and not the language designation on the search site. I don't really pay much
attention as long the language isn't a French or Spanish or some other
non-English language. Once I start proofing, I see that it's British and not
U.S., and then when I upload I designate U.K. I just don't know how many
members know to do a simple search. Maybe that is what most of them do
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> From: Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2012 5:36 PM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: designating language of a book
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>I don't like that the search defaults to U.S. English, and I wish engineering
>would change that to be "any language."
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>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.
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>Judy s.
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>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.
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>>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 default
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