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...}
Loic
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.
Irrintzi
Loic wrote:
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...
Porthos
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Yea, I noticed that the Anglo-frisian forum works better than others.
Yep, that way my idea, thank you.
Irrintzi
So what? No other answers???
André in Zuid-Afrika
Irrintzi wrote:
So what? No other answers???
You do realise that you're creating a lot of work for me, don't you? Changing it the way you asked could keep me busy for up to eight minutes....
But let's see if there's more support for your idea....
An idea I like, btw...
Irrintzi
André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:
You do realise that you're creating a lot of work for me, don't you? Changing it the way you asked could keep me busy for up to eight minutes....
Wow...Forgive me André
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But let's see if there's more support for your idea....
An idea I like, btw...
My idea results from a good intention.
I just want to boost some sub-forums.
It can be just a bad idea to regroup languages in different families...
greg in noord-frankrijk
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.
Changing it the way you asked could keep me busy for up to eight minutes.... 
