Thanks for the responses all, really appreciate it, on my way to checking out all those links. Before seeing any responses I geeked out and went through most of satoshis posts from 2009-2010(on bitcointalk); here are what seem to be the most idiosyncratic bits, and notes on spelling variations:
satoshi's vernacular/style:
-I don't question that GPL is a good license for operating systems- (license-American English)
-I did a rough tally of 4000 blocks-
-(more experience in Windows than Linux)-
-Bitcoin is still very new and has not been independently analysed.- (Analyse- British english)
-Nothing against GPL per-se, but Bitcoin is an MIT license project- (license-American English)
-The foreground is now exactly the same colour as the BC in the old one. (Colour-British English)
//contra: -I have to guess it has something to do with your display color depth selection.- (color- American English)
-The screen just goes haywire.-
-If we get too big, then by the same token, we're big enough that we don't need IRC-
- it gets too swamped with moochers using them for free bandwidth.-
- Any site that gets well known has to become more aggressively pay-naggy to cover bandwidth costs-
-do transactions without being full blown nodes.-
-Hurray! We have our first language.-
-This is now fixed in the SVN version. 1) Menu bar default color.- (color- American English)
-The design supports a tremendous variety of possible transaction types that I designed years ago.- (written in 2010)
-massive development and maintenance hassle for me.-
-I would have to air a lot of disclaimers- (air- American english?)
-They've got it awfully buried considering 9 out of 10 users are used to having it on the right.-
-Most programs are a bunch of memory access, comparisons and branching, they rarely get down to cranking away at maths for very long.-
- Like cash, you don't keep your entire net worth in your pocket, just walking around money for incidental expenses.-
-BTW, I did come to my senses after that brief bout with 1.3-
-Sorry to be a wet blanket. Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard. There's nothing to relate it to. (this screams British to me!)
-and let it start over downloading the block chain again. -
-Sorry to be a wet blanket.-
-A rough back-of-the-envelope example:-
-Correct me if I'm wrong (please, and I'll gladly eat crow) -
-WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us-
-and get mad at the pool operator-
-and I'll keep my own tally or static record of them-
-ribuck's description is spot on-
-poedit reorganised the file for some reason- (British variant of organise)
- If it jumbles the order -
- nip in the bud-
-It ramps up the fee requirement -
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US/UK variant words checked: centre vs center fibre vs fiber defense vs defence organise labor behaviour maneuver traveling vs travelling colour analyse (UK) offence (UK)
I bet a proper analysis of times of day at which satoshi was most active would be an interesting clue also..
.. also, I would like to thank Adderall for the 3 hours of hyper focus that could never normally be justified!!!
Addition: Just learned that Satoshi's Birthday (a la bitcointalk profile) is 5th April- the final day of UK tax year. Not sure if this is meaningful but i thought it could be interesting..