From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24885 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2005 09:35:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24842 invoked by uid 48); 4 Aug 2005 09:35:25 -0000 Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20050804093525.24841.qmail@sourceware.org> From: "yury_tarasievich at yahoo dot com" To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20050616151127.1015.mikhailian@altern.org> References: <20050616151127.1015.mikhailian@altern.org> Reply-To: sourceware-bugzilla@sources.redhat.com Subject: [Bug localedata/1015] There is a need for an alternative belarusian locale X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-SW-Source: 2005-08/txt/msg00033.txt.bz2 List-Id: ------- Additional Comments From yury_tarasievich at yahoo dot com 2005-08-04 09:35 ------- I didn't make myself clear, then. This isn't about linguistics at all. In Belarusian language community, there exists certain interest group, promoting use of several (long obsoleted) orthography rules. This group calls their variant of Belarusian orthography "classic". Alexander Mikhailian proposes creating additional be_BY@... branch, which would assert usage of the mentioned orthography variant. And that's perfectly okay! Just the qualifier isn't chosen well. I wouldn't put "classic" but rather, e.g., "alternative" there because: The term "classic", by every definition, is something well-recognized, widely or traditionally used. However, virtually nobody in Belarusian community outside of the interest group (which isn't numerous and/or popular!) recognizes the mentioned variant as "classic", neither by knowing or referring the name, nor by usage tradition -- as the variant's key orthography features were obsoleted about 70 years ago! Even the group-promoted usage of name "classic" started, it seems, between 1992 and 1994 (judging by two big publications on Belarusian orthography by one of the group leaders). On the other hand, term "alternative" here would be immediately recognizable, both by popular understanding and by group self-imaging. P.S. The book Kirill A. Shutemov pointed me to contains one of the editions of the mentioned orthography variant, published by the interest group, supervised, even authored, it seems, by one of the interest group leaders. -- http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1015 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.