Re: [libreoffice-l10n] New language request

I see no reason to turn this down. LO should not be the arbiter over 
language vs dialect debates and we have never to date intervened saying 
"you must produce a standard first". Breton I'm sure was a come-first 
deal and nobody asked if it was Gwened, KLT, Peurunvan, Falc'huneg (L or 
Gw) or Etrerannyezhel.

And we have many locales which look "odd" to native speakers because the 
language is not commonly written yet, even less so in software UI. If we 
turn down Bavarian on that basis, we need to shut down virtually all 
native American and African language projects.

ISO bar sounds about right as you're suggesting a macrolanguage. What's 
your account name on LO Pootle?

Michael

Sgrìobh msch@boaric.eu na leanas 13/12/2015 aig 14:00:
> Hi again,
>
> I'm sorry to reply so late, work is demanding a lot before Christmas from me.
> I agree that it is not very professional to have no Impressum on my page.
> Sadly I don't have enough time right now to do it because of my work.
> I will finish it as soon as I can though.
>
> I wrote on the Bavarian Wikipedia page, but it got turned down because they don't seem to want to 
> put any effort in creating a standard.
> The way I see it is that we Bavarians have a chance to create a standard that actually fits our 
> language, rather than taking what kinda (but not really) works and leave it at that because it 
> doesn't require effort.
> Reading Bavarian standard might be hard to do in the beginning, but so it is with every language 
> you read for the first time.
>
> I'm not alone, I have several people contributing with ideas and so far we discuss and decide what 
> word should be written how.
> Bavarian might be a collection of dialects and there is certainly no pleasing all of them, but the 
> standard we create is pleasing most dialects most of the times.
>
> As I said, due to work overflow I probably won't be able to contribute much this year, but after 
> the holiday seasons are over I should have enough time once again. I know that as a one man team 
> (with occasional helpers) I will be very slow, but I hope to achieve some sort of snowball effect 
> by convincing more Bavarians that something is being done, which will draw in more people, which 
> leads to the project being completed sooner.
>
> In the end it's up to you to accept or not, but I really rather see a Bavarian standard created 
> through active discussions and logic than one created by using standard German as template. I 
> believe that there will be a Bavarian standard at some point and I just try my best to guide it in 
> the right direction.

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