Package: dict-freedict-sco-deu
Severity: normal
This is a dict package for translating between German and the
variety of Gaelic spoken in Scotland, right? Well, the word
"Scottish" is rarely used to refer to a language, but when it is, it
isn't that one.
* Gaelic (or Scots Gaelic, or Gaidhlig) is a Celtic language related
to Irish (aka Irish Gaelic, or Gaeilge), with only fifty or
sixty thousand speakers in total.
* Scottish, or more usually Scots, is an entirely separate language
(or, depending on your point of view, dialect of English)
with something like one and a half million speakers. Just
to confuse things, some of the speakers live in Ireland.
Most of the freedict packages have been named in line with the
standard ISO 639-2 Alpha-3 codes, but "sco" is Just Plain Wrong:
+-------+-------+-------------------------+
| 639-2 | 639-2 | Name |
+-------+-------+-------------------------|
| gal | gd | Scottish Gaelic; Gaelic |
| sco | | Scots |
+-------+-------+-------------------------+
Renaming the package to dict-freedict-gal-deu may be more work than
it deserves, given its QA-Group status and popcon figures, but
please at least amend the Description to give a warning of this
gross misnomer.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.hurakan
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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