Re: Q: Can you please assist me with translation?

[Mirsad Todorovac]

On 15 Apr 2002, Martin v. Loewis wrote:

> Mirsad Todorovac <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Yes, but you are Stokavian Croat, Hrvoje - I don't know how would you feel
> > if you are Istrian or Dalmatian Cakavian? What makes you think that
> > Stokavian is "more Croat" than Cakavian and Kajkavian?
> [...]
> > Besides, even 2,500 years ago Ahasuerus of Persia was so wise that he made
> > proclamations sent to each province in it's own language, dialect and
> > scripture ... Why can't we after two and a half millenia know better?
>
> As I said before: If you want to create another team (be it for a new
> dialect, or for an entire new language): The TP will happily accept
> you.  Notice, however, that it is already a big effort to perform
> localizations for one language - if you need to maintain multiple
> translations, you can exhaust quickly. I'm sure Ahasuerus did not
> write all those letters himself :-)

Agreed, LOL :-)

> So I'd encourage you to work on a single language first; if you feel
> that you then have extra energy, let's talk about additional teams
> (OTOH, if more volunteers show up, more things can get done).

Agreed, completely.

I feel we all wasted already too much energy on exchange of arguments,
which has lead us (or at least me) astray from real work.

Paul, I'm sorry if somebody got you offended in discussion with their rude
remarks. Nationalism is far to often more connected with haughtiness than
not ...

I hope this will not disrupt our coopeartion on making GNU tar speak
another language, we won't let them that, will we?

Mirsad

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