David Lodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fri, 30 May 2008 07:16:24 -0400: > Quoting Roozbeh Pournader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Are you sure? You want to translate GNOME into a language that has not > > been spoken for 24 centuries and its whole corpus can fit in one book? > > There is precedence for deceased languages in Gnome - there is an Olde > Englisc team (ang) (though nothing's been done for a few years) as > there is for Latin. > > Both languages deader than the proverbial dodo.
Oh man, I can't speak for Old English, but Latin's not dead. And I'm serious. It's living. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_Latin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin Also, I'm not an Iranologist for sure, but I wouldn't compare Old Persian spoken in Ancient times to any language widely used during Medieval and/or Modern times. Best, Petr Kovar _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
