On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Maxim Ganetsky <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. From Wikipedia I understood that there are substantial semantical > differences between Brazilian and Portugal Portuguese. At least half of the > people participating in this thread seem to share this opinion.
That's ridiculous, a list of different prefered words (note that both versions are valid portuguese) doesn't make brazilian portuguese ununderstandable for people from other portuguese-speaking countries. Plus we aren't even talking about making a unified translation, although this would be possible. If there is enough space one can even add both variants, like: Mouse / Rato Did you notice, by the way, that there is no brazilian or portugal portuguese wikipedia? Just portuguese wikipedia? Also Mac OS X does not have 2 separate translations. Now, back to our topic, what is really at stake here is if the default language for all portuguese speaking countries should be the current translation or not. What is the default language made for? Obviously that for people that don't speak english or have a hard time reading it. For those you really intend to argue that english will be just as hard to read like brazilian portuguese? This afronts logic. Anyway, we can always agree to disagree. And if there is no agreement, I propose a voting to solve this democratically. It can be added to the forum like we have already done previously. I propose the wording: For users from Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Green Cape and East Timor and other portuguese speaking countries, the default translation should be: a> English b> Brazilian portuguese Then the vote can decide the issue instead of having a unilateral decision. > 2. If people in Portugal want to select Brazilian Portuguese translation, > they can always do it. Yes, locale autodetect will not work for them, but it > didn't work before too, so the current situation is not worse than before. <sarcasm>Yes, sure, a user from Portugal which doesn't speak english would have a much harder time trying to read brazilian portuguese then it will have trying to read english</sarcasm> -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
