Re: [libreoffice-l10n] New language request

Thank you for your support.

My account name is Matumaros.
On 13 December 2015 15:10:54 +01:00, Michael Bauer <fios@akerbeltz.org> wrote:

> 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?
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> Michael
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> 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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