On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Justin B Rye <[email protected]> wrote:

> Leandro Gómez wrote:
> > AFAIK all the logos are there (in the last PNG preview I sent).
> >
> > There has been a lot of discussion on the proper/official name of
> Republika
> > Sprska and the purpose of the ad. There has also been some minor
> suggestions,
> > such as some changes to the text, adding the website URL, etc. I've tried
> to
> > make all the changes according to your feedback and I guess that we now
> need
> > someone to close this discussion, approve the final design and send the
> ad to
> > LJ.
>
> My input is still being ignored, so I'll repeat it (over and over
> until I see some evidence of anyone taking it in).
>
> Putting "Banja Luka, in Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina" in
> the middle of a sentence is a good way of confusing readers who aren't
> experts on the nomenclature of the region.  It's very tempting to
> misparse it so that "of X, Y & Z" is all one phrase - an ambiguity
> that can easily be avoided by phrasing it as "Banja Luka, in Republic
> of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina)".
>
> But I notice this isn't even the same terminology as is used in the
> titles just above, which say:
>        BANJA LUKA
>        REPUBLIKA SRPSKA
>        BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
> It would make more sense to be consistent with that and avoid the
> strange half-anglicised version: "Banja Luka, in Republika Srpska
> (Bosnia and Herzegovina)".  This would make the parentheses less
> necessary, but I would still recommend using them.
>

Yes. The "Republic of Srpska" bit is a bug. I'll change it to "Republika
Srpska".

OTOH, I think "Banja Luka, in Republika Sprska, Bosnia and Herzegovina" is
correct. There shouldn't be any parenthesis. You don't say "Chicago,
Illinois (U.S.A.)".


> --
> JBR     with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
>        sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
>
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