@Lenary I have a hard time imagining most US folks to have a problem with that, as long as you're willing to convert Americanisms to UKisms.
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@Lenary though many from the US just aren't familiar enough with the UK version - I was in my 20s before I realized "whilst" was modern,2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@d_christiansen i think I stick to fairly understandable British English, but then I would.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Lenary but as long as a native speaker of one variety does final editing to homogenize the language to that variety, it's usually fine.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@d_christiansen so I feel this step may be left forgotten, and thus want to preempt it by standardising early.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Lenary this is also useful to get a common "voice", even if all authors have the same ostensible written standard language.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Lenary really, I think US, UK, and Canadian academic English are all close enough that it should just be considered like any style choices2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@d_christiansen oh no. This means I have to write a style guide. :(3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@lenary @d_christiansen I think I've generally approached this by resisting correcting whoever bothered to write something first…
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