Re: Pod "banned words" check?

On 2025-12-06 17:43, Karen Etheridge wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     As a British speaker, I often unwittingly write words like
>     "unrecognised" in Perl code, only to later find that we
>     standardised ^W
>     standardized on US English spelling, and have to fix it.
>
>
> Did we? Is this a written policy?
>
> As a non-US english speaker who has been employed with US companies 
> for a while, this is something that I've often struggled with, and my 
> general stance has been "I wrote it, so I decide how it's spelled."

Let's leave it to technology how readers consume texts. In general I 
wouldn't use an LLM, but for this, one probably could.
Also see https://www.nltk.org/ and such.

-- Ruud

BTW, I prefer all verbs in red, nouns in blue, adverbs in orange, 
adjectives in green, ... :)

In colloquial Dutch, people easily say and write "een *hele* moeilijke 
zaak", which formally should be "een *heel* moeilijke zaak".
Almost nobody cares about that distinction anymore.
(I somehow turned allergic to it, which likely took a few years.)