[Foundation-l] Language subcommittee vs Montenegrin language - show time over again

Sat Apr 14 12:48:40 UTC 2007

Oh, we know all about how wildly accurate your opinion polls are.
Remember how according to you, nobody in Hong Kong ever wanted a
Cantonese Wikipedia?

Mark

On 13/04/07, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree the LC could do a better job of reporting its findings and
> conclusions in a more complete manner. It should put on a meta page --
> findings of fact, an elaboration of considerations, and an explanation
> of the conclusion. That said, on balance it's findings have been on
> target.
>
> That said, just one more data point -- my friend who is himself
> Montenegrin said he thinks it (to put it kindly) imprudent to start a
> Montenegrin Wikipedia. And of the dozen or so other folks from the
> region I've talked to, not one has expressed any support for the idea.
>
> -Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
>
>
> On 4/14/07, Luiz Augusto <lugusto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/13/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > (...)
> > >
> > > We have denied the start of a Portuguese Wikipedia as well.. the
> > > difference
> > > between Brazilian and Portuguese Portuguese is substantially larger than
> > > what is being discussed with Montenegrin.
> >
> >
> > This statment is interesting to a native-speaker of the Portuguese language
> > like me to read. The differences between Brazilian and european dialects of
> > the Portuguese language are very very small (only ô versus ó, some "c" and
> > "p" as a silent letter for the european dialect and small variants
> > like a synonyms
> > most commonly used in one or other contry). If Serbian and Montenegrin
> > really have less diferecences than pt-pt and pt-br, I think that all
> > nationalist subscriber talking on this thread can be simply moderated.
> >
> > (P.S.: I think that neither the Portuguese Wikipedia community isn't
> > supporting the creation of a new Wikipedia for any national dialect, neither
> > for any variant of Portuguese language between the brazilian states -- some
> > slangs from some states aren't understandable on others)
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