[Foundation-l] Re: New language policy

Wed Nov 23 22:43:01 UTC 2005

ilooy wrote:
> 2005/11/23, Pawe³ Dembowski <fallout at lexx.eu.org>:

>>Are the differences much bigger than between British and American
>>English? Are texts in Andalusian intelligible to Castilian speakers?

What text are you talking about? All the proposed spellings for the new 
Wikipedia are intelligible to all Spanish speakers. I don't know of 
published texts using those spellings. Of course, it is hard to read 
your language in a totally new spelling, but it is almost a character 
replacement pattern.

> 
> Hi, Pawe³,
> The difference is quite obvious to
> someone who hears both Andalusian
> and Castilian. I truly believe an Andalusian
> language wiki should be formed.
> 

I think you are basing your whole expirience in how different Andalusian 
and Northern pronunciation has been to your ear. But take into account 
that a stranger's understanding of an accent is handicapped. It happens 
to me with English. I only understand Standard British and Standard 
American speeches. The remaining accents are totally not understandable 
to me. I have not any problem understanding Andalusians, nor any other 
Spaniard has.

But language domain are not only based on pronunciation. Grammar, 
syntax, lexicon... are categorical. And on that side, there are no 
differences.

> Both American and British English have
> their own forms of speech, and there are
> quite varied regional differences, but most
> are usually understandable, there are of
> course some regional forms of speech
> in the UK that I have a really hard time
> understanding. I'm sure you probably do
> as well... maybe...

Would you support Wikipedias written in a new spelling tailored to those 
regional speeches?

Greetings.
Manuel Gomez.