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

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

>> Or requesting that Germans specify whether they translate into
>> "Hoch-Deutch" or deep Bavarian.
>
> That's not an unreasonable request either.

Any success so far?  Or are your "reasonable requests" reserved for
the Croatian team?

>> 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).

That is correct -- historically.  But it is also the case that
Croatian is a pretty well-defined term now, linguistically synonymous
with stokavian ijekavian dialect (the "western variant", if you wish
to distinguish it from what's spoken in Bosnia and called Bosnian
these days.)  You can hardly get more precise than that.

If someone starts making translations in kajkavian, you can count on
them being marked as such.

> Clearly this is a sensitive subject.

Not in the way you might imagine.  I think it's rude to step into the
area where the language team should have the authority.