English (International)
Nov. 15th, 2006 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueI have just been to the Hewlett Packard Website looking for a driver for a Host Bus adaptor.
To my eternal irritation, there were two choices of 'language' for the download:
English (American)
English (International)
Now, whilst I appreciate that 'English (American)' may indeed be a separate and discrete language, I have to ask WHAT is wrong with 'English' and 'English (American)'. English (American) is the default, which ... well ok, they probably get more requests for that one than the others.
But really. It's NOT English (International). It's just 'English'. The one we invented. You can tell, because IT'S NAMED AFTER ENGLAND. Assuming of course, by 'International' you are, of course, referring to 'everywhere that isn't America'.
Grrr.
To my eternal irritation, there were two choices of 'language' for the download:
English (American)
English (International)
Now, whilst I appreciate that 'English (American)' may indeed be a separate and discrete language, I have to ask WHAT is wrong with 'English' and 'English (American)'. English (American) is the default, which ... well ok, they probably get more requests for that one than the others.
But really. It's NOT English (International). It's just 'English'. The one we invented. You can tell, because IT'S NAMED AFTER ENGLAND. Assuming of course, by 'International' you are, of course, referring to 'everywhere that isn't America'.
Grrr.
