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I fully support this pedantry and the creation of a language pack.
Does this extend to weather? Being British and all...
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Thomas, Life President of the Fuddyduddlian League.
Are you aware of your Americanism faux pas?
"but it still kind of"
Another recent vibe from across yonder pond.
Tut tut my boy.
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I remember a Portuguese friend asking if I wanted to go and see a movie which made me laugh because the Portuguese word is "filme".
My set up has said films since i realised i could change it.
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Many of you have very kindly suggested scripts, tweaks and other technical solutions. As welcome as they are, most will be beyond the ken of my core constituents. Many of whom are still troubled by the mechanics of the pencil.
The best option would probably be the language pack suggestion. The one-click-fits-all solution for those who want to live out their lives in the hermetic bubble of the fuddlyverse.
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As part of this momentous change, I further demand that we immediately reverse this slow, downward drift towards pixels as a unit of measurement, and forthwith revert directly to imperial equivalents (even if "Avoirdupois" is such a terribly... well, *French*-sounding name). I think poppyseeds and barleycorns would be entirely appropriate alternatives, albeit that they demand a standardised screen size to make any sense.
And as for 'tracks' vs 'records' - well, clearly the former, as wax cylinders played back via ear trumpets are by far the most superior vehicle for all phonographic storage.
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And musn't forget it's TV Programmes not programs...
Though looking at it that also looks a bit... well... French <shudder>
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2017-03-17, 15:27
(This post was last modified: 2017-03-17, 16:49 by Hidentity.)
To set the record / track / wax cylinder straight:
I'm not an antediluvian nationalist. Nor a metric martyr. Nor am I anti globalisation. I am actually a proponent of international socialism. I believe in a future with a decentralised and democratically organised world without nations and borders. But a globalised world shouldn't mean the purging of local and regional identities. Nor should it mean kowtowing to the merciless market. Not in a world where power and decision making would flow up not down.
Study after study has shown that living without the love and kinship of a surrounding community, and without a sense of belonging and connection can have a devastating impact on our individual and collective mental health. Which is why it seems to me that to survive in the new world we will all need to develop dual identities: a local and a global. The former to help bind to us the here and now; the latter to bind us to the cares and fate of mankind and the planet.
As language is at the core of culture and identity, I suspect the dual-identity will be an easier load for people who live in countries where English (the global lingua franca) isn't the primary language. Where the balancing act - choosing what to retain and what to discard - could come more naturally. For those of us who live in English-speaking cultures it will be more difficult. We will have to constantly weigh one with the other. Too much of one and you risk an ossified and stagnant culture; too much of the other and you risk being cast adrift as a nowhere place with a nowhere people.
Surely it should be 'Records' 
