On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Cartinus <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 June 2010 06:18:08 Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > > name:alt:de is the German translation of the alternate name > > name:de:alt is an alternate German name > > You really expect that people can keep something like that straight? > It's somewhat logical. an element to the right of a colon qualifies everything to the left. additional right elements makes further qualifications. name -> name name:alt -> alternate name name:alt:de -> German of the alternate name name -> name name:de -> German name name:de:alt -> an alternate German name And if people can't keep this straight, there's always the wiki. ;-) I actually like the idea of converting alt_name to name:alt or name:alternate. It makes it possible to distinguish an alternate German name from a German translation of an alternate name if ever people want to tag that. We can't do this distinction at all with alt_name.
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