>>Maybe I missed something, or it's just my naivety (I'm new to the list).
>>But would it not be possible to permit synonyms? Could we not permit
>>EITHER organisation or organization to be provided? Equally center/centre,
>>and so on.
>No. Unlike human beings, computers are completely incapable of seeing
>"organization" as equivalent to "organisation", and while a computer
>*could* be made to recognize both instances as corresponding to a general
>category, that would be far more complicated than simply standardizing the
>use.
please excuse my techiness, but surely this isn't true, parsing
the likes of
[organization|organisation]
is absolutely trivial. Surely the key point is that we should
make the use of this easy for the USER, not worrying about
adding one line to the language parser!
mark
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