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

[Mirsad Todorovac]

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Yes, but even so it's more polite to identify the dialects being
> > used.
>
> What kind of argument would it take to convince you that your request
> is plain silly?  Imagine me requiring that you identify whether you're
> using British or American spelling in an email header.  Or requesting
> that Germans specify whether they translate into "Hoch-Deutch" or deep
> Bavarian.  What you request here is almost as bad.
>
> I thought one of the ideas of the Translation Project was that the
> language teams have autonomy and authority when it comes to the issues
> of *their* native tongue.
>
> Please desist.  You are hurting cooperation and are certainly not
> displaying any "politeness".

Hrvoje, then again, these are only *comments* that professionals will
read, and most of end-users will never see. I'd like to cherish spirit of
cooperation instead of using hard words.

> > The GNU project is trying to encourage cooperation, and this is more
> > likely to occur when people don't overgeneralize.
>
> Stating that the language of the translation is "Croatian" is as far
> from overgeneralization as one can get.

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?

10 years of president Tudjman's unitarism nearly got us lose Istra
peninsula. I've drawn conclusions from that.

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?

Mirsad

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