On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 03:21:36PM -0700, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > I think "Valencian (RACV)" sounds reasonable. > > First, I don't see a need for Wesnoth language translations to be > sanctioned by the United Nations, ISO, or any other authority. Heck, > its not uncommon for people to translate computer interfaces to > Klingon. <http://www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon> > > So to me the question boils down to name collision or user confusion. > The "Valencian (RACV)" proposal seems like a fairly descriptive name, > and separable from other competing concepts of "Valencian". > > I know linguistic identity can mix with political identity and ignite > a lot of passion, and sometimes these battles spill over to unlikely > places. But basically - from Wesnoth's perspective - is there really a > problem here?
There is a problem in the sense that Valencian speakers who want to use Wesnoth aren't supposed to make an investigation on what Valencian is, and what this "RACV thing" is all about. You see, in Valencian country everyone understands Valencian to be the language that is taught in school as "Valencian", the language that is used by the government, in public signs, in newspapers, etc, etc, etc. There's only a small (but very vocal as you can see), niche group that pretends they made the "real" Valencian, and are fond of using free software projects like Wesnoth to push further in their agenda. So, just like one can invent a language and call it "Klingon", and this is never considered a problem, it shouldn't be considered a problem for the RACV to invent languages as well. My whole point is _not_ that they shouldn't, but that it should be referred to in a way that doesn't confuse the average Valencian speaker. That is, if we put together: - Valencian (southern Catalan) - Valencian (RACV) we're impliing that whether Valencian is option 1 or 2 is a matter of opinion, but it's been explained very clearly that it is not. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
