On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:37:41 -0700 Tim Alberts <talberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here's a thought, how about quit making up new languages and start > combining others. Thats a natural process of borrowing anyway but its naïve to think that language stands alone. Language is tied to many things and the fact that we have en_GB and people who strongly object to the use of en_US is tied to culture, history and of course politics. In other cases (eg Russian in former eastern block countries) the political baggage is enormous. A language like arabic has all sorts of important religious and cultural links across many nations. "Cenedl Heb Iaith, Cenedl Heb Calon" as they say here.. 'A nation without a language is a nation without a heart' (and as an on topic aside I've just finished 100% coverage of the Fedora tools into en_GB using the rather excellent en_GB.pl from the Gnome project and a bit of hand fixing) So internationlisation and localisation is very important. There are billions of people who do not speak English and are getting their hands on computers. Alan
