The CLDR is no standard at all, and the people who maintain it would be the first to tell you that. A standard is, by definition, authoritative within its area of discourse. The only authoritative source for how to make plural forms in vari…
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It is more like American English and British English, even less different. There is some slight variation particularly in spelling of western loan words. The other difference is in word use frequency. However, both words are well understood…
Fully agreed. I do not think ancient, classical, medieval, and modern Latin should be treated as a unique language for most purposes. They do not share spelling, they diverge lexically, they do not share pronunciation. They are farther apar…
I would LOVE to be part of the conversation. On the second I have a meeting at exactly the time when the meeting is to be held. It sounds not nice, but I hope you will miss the flight so that I can be there ...Thanks, GerardM The WLDC aims
Thank you for the blog about Betawiki. We are doing what we can and we try to listen to our users as much as possible. Based on this blog, we will be making some adjustments. The export function for .po will soon lead to a download, so that…
"Reconstructed language" means things like Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European. These are not languages, they are hypothetical posits: there is not, and cannot be, a single piece of text in any of them. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S…
Here you can find some of my work in software localization in Bambara language, the most spoken mande language of west africa, using the N'ko script.We are just at the begining of the work, but hope to have some work done before decembre in…
You have a very generous definition of what is a "living" language here, which may be a good thing, because I think we should err on the side of promoting languages.But even "living" languages would not merit a Wikipedia, if there were not
This is The WLDC's first major project... what an exciting one! I am really looking forward to working with the Kamusi Project team and I think we are very lucky to have retained such a versatile, knowledgeable and dynamic Project Director.…
Congratulations on the new blog, I hope it will be a great success and help people to become aware of the many issues we face when we want to support languages.Thanks, Gerard Agree with Gerard. Let's see what we can ahcieve.Peter The WLDC a…