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Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help'
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Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help' |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Apr 2021 14:08:37 +0000 |
Hello, Emacs.
On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 08:35:06 -0500, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
[ .... ]
> * Language Help:: Help relating to international language support.
This has kind of grated with me for some while. It feels like
"international" is being used as a euphemism for "foreign". If we
really mean "foreign" that is what we should write.
Some of the languages we support are NOT international, but pertain to
just one nation.
As a suggestion, how about writing "non-English" in place of
"international". That is surely what is meant. After all English _is_
an international language, along with Spanish, French, .....
[ .... ]
> > Thanks.
> Thanks a lot for your detailed comments. As I said in my reply to
> Howard, please bare with me as I try to take all comments into account
> and work out a coherent whole.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', (continued)
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Howard Melman, 2021/04/07
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Stefan Kangas, 2021/04/08
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/08
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Stefan Kangas, 2021/04/08
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/08
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Howard Melman, 2021/04/08
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Stefan Kangas, 2021/04/08
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/09
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help',
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Dmitry Gutov, 2021/04/08
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Alan Mackenzie, 2021/04/08
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/08
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Alan Mackenzie, 2021/04/08
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/08
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Howard Melman, 2021/04/08
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Stefan Kangas, 2021/04/09
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/08
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Stefan Kangas, 2021/04/08
- Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help', Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/08