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Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation? |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:53:17 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Hrvoje Niksic <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 02:23:45 +0200
>
> Imagine me requiring that you identify whether you're using British
> or American spelling in an email header.
It's not silly to distinguish between British and American spelling in
translations. GNU diffutils, for example, has an en_GB.po translation
for British spellers. Come to think of it, I should probably add that
for tar, too. It would be a nice thing to do, even though only one
word ("unrecognized") needs translation.
> Or requesting that Germans specify whether they translate into
> "Hoch-Deutch" or deep Bavarian.
That's not an unreasonable request either.
> Stating that the language of the translation is "Croatian" is as far
> from overgeneralization as one can get.
I thought that "Croatian" was a pretty broad brush. Historically, it
has included dialects that differ from the standard literary Jekavian
more than Jekavian differs from Ekavian (the most common dialect in
Serbia).
Clearly this is a sensitive subject. (But you should see some of the
strongly worded letters I get from Israelis and Palestinians! You
guys are much calmer. :-)
- Q: Can you please assist me with translation?, Mirsad Todorovac, 2002/04/12
- Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?, Paul Eggert, 2002/04/12
- Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?, Hrvoje Niksic, 2002/04/12
- Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?, Paul Eggert, 2002/04/12
- Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?, Hrvoje Niksic, 2002/04/12
- Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?, Hrvoje Niksic, 2002/04/12
- Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?, Paul Eggert, 2002/04/12
- Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?, Hrvoje Niksic, 2002/04/12
- Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?, Martin v. Loewis, 2002/04/13
- Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?, Karl Eichwalder, 2002/04/13
- Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?, Paul Eggert, 2002/04/13
- Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?, Martin v. Loewis, 2002/04/13
- Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/04/13
- Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?, Paul Eggert, 2002/04/13
- Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?, Martin v. Loewis, 2002/04/13