Thank you, Russel, KAMI and Bernd. I am very much relieved! Since I am new to openoffice I had come to believe that some terribly biased and germanophobe premature idiot was at work, so, eventually I was getting so upset last night that I "needed to create this issue". I stand corrected, bow my head towards all Hungarians, and shall dig myself deeper in to Oo in just about a few moments. What a relief! indeed! Thx again! Jaques
Bernd Eilers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: open officecanada wrote: > Hi folks, > I am a Canadian speaking and writing 4 languages and upon trying to install a > german language pack I realised that parts of it got called "hun-spell". > I wonder who the idiot was who came up with "hun-spell" for the german > language pack in the first place. I guess its the same type of narrow minded > jackass who came up with "freedom-fries". > Really guys, this is one blatant and frightening piece of ignorance that does > not fit a opensource project like openoffice. Until corrected to something > like "ger-spell" I shall refuse to use open office nor will I recommend it! > Regards > Jaques > Hi there! Don´t get upset about the name it´s just the name of the spell checker software and name for the related format of the dictonary files and has nothing to do with the language being checked. And the "hun" in it is an abbreviation for "hungaria". That spell checker software originally was an fork to the myspell spell checker made because of enhancements needed to support the hungarian language better, that´s where it got it´s name from. But it´s new features have been useful for other languages too, so it got widely used. There´s really no offending intention in its naming and nobodys trying to be funny here. Please have a look at the following URLs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/ > Hallo Leute, die IdiotIN, die die deutsche Spracherfassung von openoffice > "hun-spell" genannt hat ist wahrscheinlich der gleichen Spezies von US-Ami > zuzuordnen, die French-Fries in Freedom-Fries umbennen wollte. Bis der Titel > fuer die deutsche Sprachversion neu- und umbenannt ist, werde ich openoffice > nicht benutzen und auch nicht empfehlen. Hallo zurück. Im Gegenteil wäre eher eine Umbenennung von hun-spell in ger-spell vergleichbar mit einer Umbenennung von French-Fries in Freedom Fries. Und der den du als "Idiot" bezeichnest ist der Softwareentwickler der eine bestehende Software myspell genommen hat und für seine Sprache erweitert hat und dann der neuen Software ihren Namen gegeben hat. > Gruss > Jaques > > Gruss, Bernd Eilers > --------------------------------- > Make free worldwide PC-to-PC calls. Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger with > Voice --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail
