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Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese


From: Basil L. Contovounesios
Subject: Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:16:32 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

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



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