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has caused the Debian Bug report #603695,
regarding lists.debian.org: Request for the new mailing list debian-user-slovene
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Package: lists.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Hello !
I would like to request a new mailing list, targeted for Slovene
users of Debian.
Here is the data requested from
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/HOWTO_start_list
Name - debian-user-slovene
Rationale - Targeting the Slovene Debian users
Short Description - Support for Debian users that speak Slovene.
Long Description - Support for Debian users that speak Slovene.
Category - Users
Subscription policy - Open
Post policy - Open
Web archive - Yes
Kind regards,
Jan Prunk
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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Klistvud schrieb am Saturday, den 04. December 2010:
> Hello.
>
> I'd like to subscribe to the list too.
>
> As a side note: wouldn't 'debian-users-slovenian' be a less
> unequivocable, and thus a more appropriate name for the list? The
> lists are named after languages, not after nations. Now, although
> both "Slovene" and "Slovenian" may be used for the language name, I
> personally see "Slovenian" as more appropriate, for several reasons:
>
> 1. the use of 'Slovenian' instead of 'Slovene' naturally and
> intuitively follows the -- not identical at all, but similar
> nonetheless -- pattern used in, say, 'Croat' vs. 'Croatian' where
> the short form can only be used to denote the nation, not the
> language; the same can be said of 'Serb/Serbian', 'Turk/Turkish',
> and some other language/nation pairs;
> 2. the use of 'Slovenian' is less context-dependent; while 'Slovene'
> can mean three distinct things (nation/language/adjective),
> 'Slovenian' has only two distinct meanings (language/adjective),
> which makes it more precise and straightforward to use;
> 3. for what it's worth, the expression 'Slovene' is more exposed to
> potential associations (and puns) with 'sloven', a single 'e' being
> the only difference between the two;
> 4. as a bonus, 'Slovenian' sort-of rhymes with 'Debian' ;)
The list is now available as [email protected] [1]
Thanks
Alex
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-slovenian/
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