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From: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] NEWS: Avoid the words "nominative" and "genitive".
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 09:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1656545809.435941.1532684630776@poczta.nazwa.pl> (raw)

Shouldn't we avoid the terms "nominative" and "genitive" when
referring to the support of two grammatical forms of month names?
As an example, a Scottish Gaelic translator told me that their grammar
rules call these cases "nominative" and "possessive".  Unfortunately,
I don't remember where this was said and whether it was a private
email or a public list.

Additionally, there are languages where the genitive case exists but
it is incorrect to use it when formatting a date.

Thoughts?  Carlos?

Regards,

Rafal

             reply	other threads:[~2018-07-27  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-27  9:44 Rafal Luzynski [this message]
2018-07-27  9:48 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Rafal Luzynski
2018-07-27 11:50   ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-07-27 19:50     ` Rafal Luzynski

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