From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: matthewzmd@posteo.net, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
ksqsf@mail.ustc.edu.cn
Subject: Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:37:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z72ov3r.fsf@red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu0e890e.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:29:05 -0700")
On 22 Oct 2020, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>My 2c: the simplified/traditional script distinction is probably the
>right way to go. As Stefan says, the point of the file is showing off
>scripts, but more than that, the script distinction is actually
>relatively apolitical. It's when you get into Mandarin vs Cantonese and
>trying to establish a taxonomical relationship between dialects/variants
>that politics comes into it. The simplified/traditional split is pretty
>uncontroversial.
+1 to making this be just about the simplified/traditional script distinction.
The script distinction is pretty orthogonal to the language [1] distinction here. And Cantonese and Mandarin are just two of *many* Chinese languages: if the HELLO file were to start down that road, it would encounter many things that it would do better to avoid :-).
Best regards,
-Karl
[1] Or "dialects" if you prefer. אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמײ און אַ פֿלאָט. "A language is a dialect with an army and a navy."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-22 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-22 6:25 etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese Kai Ma
2020-10-22 6:45 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-10-22 11:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-22 13:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-22 15:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-22 15:58 ` Werner LEMBERG
2020-10-22 15:44 ` Yuan Fu
2020-10-22 17:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-10-22 20:37 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2020-10-23 3:41 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-23 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 7:55 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-10-23 10:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 11:16 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-10-23 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 16:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-10-22 23:03 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-10-22 15:46 ` Yuan Fu
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