What is en_US ?

[Thompson Freeman]

On 06/13/2007 11:21:17 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:22:13 -0600
> "David G. Miller" <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:
> 
> > Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >
> > > > I know Americans spell a few words wrongly, but so
> what?
> > > > Plenty of people make spelling mistakes,
> > > > and it doesn't affect one's understanding in the
> slightest.
> > > >
> > >
> > en_US leaves room for en_RN (English "Red Neck" variant)
> 
> 
> Trivia:
> In the early days Red Hat did in fact include a Red Neck
> installation
> option, because there was a need to translate stuff and
> none of the US
> office at the time spoke anything but en_US and en_Redneck

And I remember that one. I wouldn't enable en_Redneck to  
general use, but I howled over the attempt to install RH  
using en_Redneck. I vaguely remember laughing so much that  
I don't remember getting the silly thing installed, but  
that is another issue.

I could wish that somebody familiar with both localization  
efforts and that old redneck dialect would recreate it for  
F8, even if only as a respin project. It might qualify as a  
work of linguistic art 8-).