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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