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Panther speaks Canadian English. ...and Australian and multiple forms of Portugese?
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Oct 3, 2003, 03:45 PM
 
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Oct 3, 2003, 03:48 PM
 
Sweet Jesus it is about time!

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Oct 3, 2003, 04:12 PM
 
Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
Sweet Jesus it is about time!
Don't you mean aboot time
     
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Oct 3, 2003, 04:35 PM
 
Originally posted by jehu:
Don't you mean aboot time
I have honestly NEVER heard any Canadian say that.

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Oct 3, 2003, 04:45 PM
 
I'd love it if it talked to me like Rick Moranis in Strange Brew.

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Oct 3, 2003, 04:57 PM
 
Finnish not being there has always been there. Damn.

But Brazilian Portuguese rules.

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Oct 3, 2003, 05:16 PM
 
kanadian - ask

amerikan - aks

kanadian - house

amerkan - trailer
     
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Oct 3, 2003, 05:46 PM
 
Originally posted by Eug:
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenT...1&m=3920905885



Has this always been there?
Umm, 10.2 does this. The only one on that list that I don't have is "Australian English", and I'm sorry but "British English" has to become "English" and "English" should be changed to "American English". It ain't your language!
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Oct 3, 2003, 06:11 PM
 
by the way that's spelling not speakable items your showing...voices are in north amerikan english...we speak the same but the spelling is sometimes a bit different in kanada for some people...

this of course excludes regional accents...
     
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Oct 3, 2003, 06:26 PM
 
Canadian English was added with Jaguar, I remember it not being in 10.1 though and complaining. To get it just Ctrl-click in a text field, go down to Spelling then "Spelling..." and then there you have what you see in this picture.

I have to have my colours and rumours spelled correctly
     
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Oct 3, 2003, 06:56 PM
 
Well, the Australian English is new.
     
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Oct 3, 2003, 07:26 PM
 
Originally posted by quandarry:
kanadian - ask

amerikan - aks

kanadian - house

amerkan - trailer
Ha ha, true

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Oct 3, 2003, 09:08 PM
 
Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Well, the Australian English is new.
It is, and it's nice to finally have a dictionary that doesn't complain about "buggered" - the American one probably thought it was vulgar or something:/

I also agree that those who live in England should get to call their language English...
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Oct 3, 2003, 09:21 PM
 
Sweet I can spell colour and not get a red line! Although I already had OS X learn that word... yeah... sweet I never bothered to see that heh.

By the way the original thought that for speakable items you'd have to end every command with eh?
     
   
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