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Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese
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Basil L. Contovounesios |
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Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:16:32 +0100 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> But I'd like to reiterate what I said earlier: I would only remove my
> objections for changing this part of HELLO if I hear from a
> representative enough group of native Chinese speakers from both sides
> of the divide that some change will be acceptable to them, and cause
> no controversies on either side. With all due respect, people who
> voiced their opinions in this matter till now cannot be considered
> such a group. In particular, none of them stated his/her country of
> origin and current place of living, nor the cultural group to which he
> or she belongs, which makes judging the opinions harder.
FWIW, I think Eric is also a literary translator of Chinese.
--
Basil
- Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese, (continued)
- Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese, Yuan Fu, 2020/10/22
- Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/10/22
- Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese, Karl Fogel, 2020/10/22
- Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese, Richard Stallman, 2020/10/22
- Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/23
- Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese, Mingde (Matthew) Zeng, 2020/10/23
- Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/23
- Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese,
Basil L. Contovounesios <=
- Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/23
- Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/10/23
- Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese, Mingde (Matthew) Zeng, 2020/10/22
Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese, Yuan Fu, 2020/10/22