Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:56 pm Post subject: Sub-Forum Reorganization
I suggest grouping together the Castellano sub-forum in "super" sub-forum of Ibero-romance languages (including Asturian, Galiciano, Portuguese and Catalan), as well as grouping together Occitan (langues d'Oc) and French (and langues d'Oïl) languages in Gallo-Romance languages sub-forum as the Anglo-Frisan forum (same thing for Italic, Germanic or Slavic family languages eventually), or group all Romance languages in one Romance sub-forum because some forum are unused as Latin, Euskara, Języki słowiańskie, Português, Occitan...
Opinions?
{It is necessary to notice that several major and very important languages are not present as Chinese, Arabic, Swahili, Russian, Hindi...}
It sounds like a good idea to me, but I don't know what the rest think.
As for the inclusion of languages like Chinese or Arabic, I am of the opinion that we should not fall over ourselves to include them unless there is a substantial demand for it. Otherwise, it just ends up like a sad piece of furniture bought spuriously at a sale in IKEA which serves no useful purpose at all. _________________ Hillary Clinton is an acquired taste which I have clearly yet to acquire.
It sounds like a good idea to me, but I don't know what the rest think.
Yea, I noticed that the Anglo-frisian forum works better than others.
Combine for example all Latin languages in a single sub-forum should give a new dynamics (some forums aren't visited as Portuguese, Latin, Occitan; & Spanish and French forums are quite unattented...), after all, if there are more people, we could separate all these languages, but we are not enough many for the moment...
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As for the inclusion of languages like Chinese or Arabic, I am of the opinion that we should not fall over ourselves to include them unless there is a substantial demand for it. Otherwise, it just ends up like a sad piece of furniture bought spuriously at a sale in IKEA which serves no useful purpose at all.
Effectively, it would be interesting to have Chinese or Arabic sub-forums if there are arabic-speakers and chinese-speakers... But nobody or few antimooners came from Asia or Africa (excepted you, Loic, naturally).
Even, these languages are very important...
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject: Re: Sub-Forum Reorganization
Irrintzi wrote:
I suggest grouping together the Castellano sub-forum in "super" sub-forum of Ibero-romance languages (including Asturian, Galiciano, Portuguese and Catalan), as well as grouping together Occitan (langues d'Oc) and French (and langues d'Oïl) languages in Gallo-Romance languages (...)
I don't know if that would be a good idea — linguistically speaking that is — since Catalan is by no means an Iberoroman language (in the linguistic, not geographic, sense) but rather a Centroroman language just as all Oc languages, Piedmontais & Lombard (to name but a few) are.
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