You excel in hiding important issues under details.
Fact is that Romanian/Moldovan is complex, and that you cannot write Moldovan correctly.
Whether or not the language(s) is/are complex is entirely irrelevant
to the discussion. Also, my abilities (or alleged lack thereof) aren't
particularly relevant to the discussion.
Concerning your claim that Moldovans are not
Moldovans, it's pure FUD. If you want to continue in the same direction, please
provide proof of your existence, and that you are not a KGB/FSB agent. :)
I never claimed that "Moldovans are not Moldovans". What I did claim
is that those people who claim on Wikipedia to be Moldovans have not
substantiated their identity in the least, with the exception of
Pavel.
As concerns the "Moldovan" schools of
Transnistria, you forgot to tell that Moldovans there are forced to go to these schools,
and that their attempts to open latin-scripted schools were crushed by security forces.
No -- there are schools that teach in Latin. However, they are forced
to operate as private schools and do not receive support from the
state. There are two Latin-script highschools and a total of 8% of
Transnistrian kids go to Latin-script schools. There are also 14
Moldavian schools (total), using Cyrillic, and 2 Moldavian-Russian
bilingual schools.
The Romanian press was happy to report when schools were closed, on
the front page, but when some were re-opened (as private
institutions), it was much farther back.
Mark
Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry for not replying to
Mark's emails, but I think that discussing
politics and whether Romanian or French has a
grammar closer to Latin
is off-topic on this list. :-)
That was a sub-topic of an e-mail. When replying to e-mails, you are
more than welcome to ignore topics you find irrelevant.
Node, please do not accuse people for
sockpuppetry without any
evidence: when Pavel was on #wikipedia, he had an IP address of
a .md ISP and since Freenode does not allow proxies, he really
must be in Moldova.
Still, do you have evidence that any of the other so-called
"Moldovans" are real people, in Moldova?
Also, we should not confuse this
Romanian/Moldovan situation
with other situations where it's the debate whether a dialect/close
language should have a Wikipedia, like Scots/English or Serbian/Croat.
Nowadays, the dispute that "Moldovan" is different from "Romanian"
is absurd: even Voronin, the Moldovan president said that they're the
same language and just the name is different.
That's not really the issue here. What is the issue, is that 36% of
Moldovans (excluding residents of Transnistria) claim "Moldovan" as
their native language; the official script in Transnistria is
Cyrillic, the official language in Transnistria is Moldavian (they
still call it that in English officially in Transnistria, I think),
and many schoolchildren in Transnistria/PMR/Stinga Nistrului go to
"Moldavian schools", where the teaching is in Moldovan Cyrillic, or
"Russian/Moldavian bilingual schools", where teaching time is divided
between Russian, and Moldovan Cyrillic.
Mark
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