This blog is written in en-GB 0 ▲ Terence Eden’s Blog 2 hours ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments Someone left a comment on my blog recently asking if I'd mind making my language more inclusive. They didn't get some of the cultural references I'd used and suggested it would be easier if I used tropes which were more globally known. Here's the thing. No. All my blog posts start with a simple declaration: <!doctype html> <html lang=en-GB> There's a reason for that. It is more than the language I speak; it is the culture I live in, the way that I think, and the accent I use. When your AI bot reads this text aloud, it should do so with a British accent0. That's how I speak. It is OK to hear a slightly unfamiliar accent. You'll be able to figure out what I'm saying. Your world won't collapse if I don't start each sentence with "Howdy, y'all!" But what should you do if you come across a concept you don't understand? When The Wicked Witch of the TERFs released the first Harry Potter book "Philosopher's Stone", it was published in the USA with a different title; "Sorcerer's Stone". There… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.
