User talk:Mojo-chan

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Hello Mojo-chan, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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This is a response to some of your comments on the Color page

This would be very easy to fix. Just modify Wikipedia with a list of known American English (mis)spellings and have to automatically translate every page depending on who is viewing. How do you know if the viewer prefers British/Canadian/Australian/American/etc English? Easy, look at the User Agent string the browser sends (which often includes preferred language encoding, en-GB for me, see http://www.micro-sys.dk/services/http-user-agent/), look at the referer (google.co.uk etc), look at the users preferences or look at what the user searched for (colour etc). Mojo-chan 21:16, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
This idea has been discussed and rejected numberous times, just look in the archives of this page.Daniel()Folsom |\T/|\C/|\U/|(Can you help me with my signature?) 00:44, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
PS English is not a German invention. It is an original language of the British Isles, which was born from elements of other languages brought in by invaders, such as French, German, Latin etc. Please also understand that American spelling is not a trivial thing for many people - text does not scan well when there are spelling mistakes, which is what they look like to us. Mojo-chan 21:19, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
According to our English language page, quote, "English is an Anglo-Frisian language brought to southeastern Great Britain in the 5th century AD by Germanic settlers from various parts of northwest Germany (Saxons, Angles) as well as Jutland (Jutes)."
Another thing, there are many differences of spellings in the American/English language - you'll notice that while some articles use the American spelling, for example this one, some use the British spellings, i.e. Yoghurt (Yogurt by American spellings). And frankly if you have troulbe realizing that "color" is the same as "colour" than you need to work up on your reading (I have no problem reading the yogHurt page). I mean seriously? Drama Queen much?Daniel()Folsom |\T/|\C/|\U/|(Can you help me with my signature?) 00:44, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
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