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From: "Steve Loughran" <steve_l@iseran.com>
To: "Ant Users List" <user@ant.apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Interesting marketing slogan (was: RE: ANT visions and best
 practices)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:25:57 -0800
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I stopped worrying about localisation issues a long time ago. Its easier to
teach people I work with phrases like 'on the blower' and ' a dogs
breakfast' than learn equivalents. What is harder is that US people grew up
with a different set of TV programs , so that they make references to things
I dont understand. Likewise, UK phrases from "I have a cunning plan",
"here's one I prepared earlier" and the like dont transfer.

Now that everyone is being brought up with unified TV from tellietubbies
onwards (yes, I did have to watch it at 0630 today), life may get easier. At
least if the witty tv references are restricted to "UH-OH" and comments
about tubby-custard.

In the book Erik provided the the localisation service. Certain UK phrases
'till later' map to "until later", and so on, and of course there was the
different spelling -since then I intermittently spell US style. We had fun
getting hacker speak past the editors, I distinctly remember "crufty" as one
of the issues. ESR's hacker dictionary was used as the reference manual
there, though I never got to insert 'voodoo programming' or 'wave a dead
chicken over the source' (*)

-steve

(*) But in the "when web services go bad project", an official strategy for
one problem was going to be "have a virgin sacrifice a goat", the reason for
having the virgin do it being if the goat didnt work, we had an escalation
policy to hand...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chappell, Simon P" <Simon.Chappell@landsend.com>
To: "Ant Users List" <user@ant.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:51
Subject: Interesting marketing slogan (was: RE: ANT visions and best
practices)


Thanks Steve.

I do just have a quick question about your comment ("It's the dog's b*****ks
of Ant books") on the bottom of the page:

http://www.iseran.com/Steve/papers/antbook.html

Do you confuse many Yanks with that? Being British (even if I live and work
on the other side of the pond) I know exactly what you mean, but I'm sure
that my co-workers would not! :-)

Simon