2008/11/13 Dan Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How can people manage to be this grumpy about something this petty. > Suggesting that a country is full of criminals simply because they use > a different writing system is disgusting trolling, and has no place on > this mailing list. > > -- > DCollins/ST47
It isn't as petty as it may appear and it is understandable that people would be somewhat vexed. Transnistria is not widely considered to be a country for a number of reasons. The written language is a Russian invention which I understand was part of a program to rework Moldavia's cultural identity. It is understandable that residents of Moldova would object to it being called Moldovan. Now you might think that since it is only used in Transnistria (there may be a little use in Moldova among certain age groups but I've seen no evidence of this) we could call it Transnistrian however this would clash with the geopolitical objectives of a number of countries such as say the United States of America. To a large extent we can ignore the issue since at the present time we are yet to encounter a native Cyrillic Moldovan writer. But this is not a long term solution and moveing the thing to cy-mo is likely to cause further issues. While eastern european nationalism may seem somewhat petty to those of us who live in countries where out national identity has not been significantly threatened of late that does not mean that we should underestimate it's significance to those who display it. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
