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by ashwagary 1636 days ago
Many US immigrants studied under the British system before arriving here. More Asians and Africans studied/follow this standard than actual Brits.

Nigerians, for example, follow this standard and they have 4 times the population of the UK.
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JetSetWilly 1636 days ago
He wasn’t just using British spelling, but British coloquialisms that are not taught abroad. And he clearly wrote at a “native” level.

And he was active - writing commits and emails - in UK hours, not American hours.

Is it some kind of US nationalism that insists on ignoring all this?

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finite_jest 1636 days ago
> British coloquialisms that are not taught abroad

What are some examples of those?

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JetSetWilly 1636 days ago
He would use terms like "bloody hard" or "wet blanket" which I would doubt are taught to foreigners learning English even with British spelling.

However - his spelling was a bit inconsistent. The "Len Sassaman" theory is interesting - as he was known to write in a somewhat British style (for whatever reason) - but not consistently - and was in the right timezone at the time. Or perhaps Satoshi was a synthesis of multiple different people which would explain a lot of the inconsistency as well.

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ashwagary 1635 days ago
>He would use terms like "bloody hard" or "wet blanket" which I would doubt are taught to foreigners learning English even with British spelling.

These coloquialisms are common in Africa/Asia. This is the case for most ex-colonies.

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