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

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Hrvoje Niksic <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 03:06:15 +0200
> 
> are your "reasonable requests" reserved for the Croatian team?

I have made requests from several language teams over the years.  The
most recent request I made before this one, for example, was a month
ago to the Spanish team about their translation for Bison.  A couple
weeks before that, I requested a change to the German team about their
translation for Diffutils.  I have a reasonably good record of having
requests accepted, even though I am not a native speaker of any
language other than English.  This is the first time that such a
request has been rejected so abruptly.  (I assume you're speaking for
the hr team here.)

Obviously I don't have the time to check every byte of every
translation, but it's not unreasonable for me to make requests when I
see the opportunity.

> 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.)

Oh, my.  Have the Bosnians agreed on a dialect now?  It's hard to
imagine Bosnians agreeing about anything.  :-(

> I think it's rude to step into the area where the language team
> should have the authority.

It's a minor request for a comment in the style already used by the
Norwegian teams.  I don't see why it's out of line to request it here.