Metin Akbil wrote:
Saturday, December 2, 2006, 3:37:04 AM, you wrote:
Metin Akbil wrote:
There is nothing wrong with the program as it stands. The choices are
"Turkish Lira [in the 'Kurdish(Turkey)' locale]" and "Turkish Lira [in
the 'Turkish' locale]".
--
John W. Kennedy
The problem is with the "Kurdish (Turkey) locale". Please check
official sources, such a locale doesn't exist. I live in
Turkey and the only locale in use in Turkey is Turkish (Turkey). My
objection is to citing a 'Kurdish locale' in Turkey. This is not a
language issue.
As I stated previously, such information should be acquired from
reliable official sources, such arbitrarily made up false information does
not reflect well on an otherwise good product.
Is it indeed "official" that one may not write in the Kurdish language
in Turkey? Tell us more. I'm sure the European Court of Human Rights
will be very interested to learn all about it.
I think you have a problem understanding the English language!
That will be very distressing news for the people who have relied on my
skills as an editor.
Please don't follow up on hidden agendas that you know very little or
nothing about. I specifically stated that this is not a language
issue, people can speak and write whatever language thet want in Turkey.
Then they can set their software to whatever combination of language and
nation they wish. That being the case, please stop requesting that
OpenOffice.org stop supporting the Kurdish language in Turkey.
The official language is Turkish, what languages people use in their
everyday lives is up to them, there are no restrictions. For
your information, there are a couple of radio stations broadcasting in
Kurdish.
...provided that they limit themselves to no more than five hours of
Kurdish per week.
Why insist on having a "Kurdish locale in Turkey"?
Because people who actually use Kurdish find it necessary to distinguish
Kurdish as spoken in Turkey from Kurdish as spoken in other nations.
(Some report that dialects of Kurdish are as different from one another
as English is from German.)
--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
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