Rob, On 2012-08-06, at 16:48 , Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm writing up the release announcement blog post for 3.4.1. Two questions: > > 1. When referring to the language with code == "sk", is the preferred > form "Slovakian" or "Slovak" > > 2. Same question for "sl", is it "Slovenian" or "Slovene"? > > I'm finding contradictory information on the web. > > -Rob
Commentators around the world comment on articles but also commentate. One is superior to the other but that usually relies on who has the bigger gun: As Noam Chomsky put it, in a slightly different context, the difference between a dialect and a language is a battleship; a shibboleth is a sibboleth is a divisional dispute by any other name or noun, adjective, too. Perhaps now that we call gynaecologists with a hard not soft "g" and aspirate with vigour the H in vehicle (used to be silent, just read a fine Asimov story on it), but still spell socks with ck and not x, despite a century of effort to stanch that unstaunchable flow of too many consonants and vowels stuffing English words (but not ghoti fish), we end with euphony in syllabification to conclude not with caesurae but consonantal rock. Ciao Louis
