On Wednesday 27 November 2002 04:00 am, wikien-l-request@wikipedia.org wrote:
1: I'd like to formally request sysop status.
You forgot a vital piece of information. By which user name do you want sysop user rights? Tokerboy or Tucci528 (I assume Tokerboy since that is the user name you seem to be using these days).
Either way I fully support your bid for sysophood. Tokerboy has been a great help in the mythology and music sections and in general weeding.
BTW our current primary naming convention is to use what most English speakers would know and recognize as article titles with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity and do any usage explanation in the article itself.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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|From: Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com |Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:26:19 -0800 | |BTW our current primary naming convention is to use what most English |speakers would know and recognize as article titles with a reasonable |minimum of ambiguity and do any usage explanation in the article itself. | |-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav) |
Came across this the other day:
English is an official language in 71 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and has been granted special status in six more, also throughout the world.
According to this source, Great Britain is in the first group and the US is in the second group. Another source, somewhat older, says GB only gives unofficial status to English.
Total English-speaking population, world-wide, 338 million as a first language, 236 million as a second language. Total population of countries granting status to English, 2 billion plus.
English is the sole statutory language of Namibia and one of two statutory languages of Canada, and is one of five statutory languages of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (with Arabic, Chinese, French, and Spanish).
In other words, it isn't all American arrogance. The Namibians are with us all the way.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88
1 - The Cambridge Factfinder 2 - The Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
Daniel Mayer wrote:
BTW our current primary naming convention is to use what most English speakers would know and recognize as article titles with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity and do any usage explanation in the article itself.
Emperor "Franz Josef" of Austria: 203,000 Google hits; "Francis Joseph": 24,500 Google hits yet we persist in using Francis Joseph pretending that it is most recognizable by English speakers
Eclecticology
|From: Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net |X-Accept-Language: en-us |Sender: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org |Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:12:51 -0800 | |Daniel Mayer wrote: | |>BTW our current primary naming convention is to use what most English speakers |>would know and recognize as article titles with a reasonable minimum of |>ambiguity and do any usage explanation in the article itself. |> |Emperor "Franz Josef" of Austria: 203,000 Google hits; "Francis Joseph": |24,500 Google hits yet we persist in using Francis Joseph pretending |that it is most recognizable by English speakers | |Eclecticology
I think that is confusing "most recognizable by English speakers" with "English instead of something else". Franz Josef is much more recognizable than Francis Joseph in this case. Charlemagne is much more recognizable than Karl der Gross or Charles the Great.
I have been pretty pro-English in all this, but Francis Joseph is silly.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88
At 13:48 27/11/02 -0500, Tom Parmenter wrote:
According to this source, Great Britain is in the first group and the US is in the second group. Another source, somewhat older, says GB only gives unofficial status to English.
I am not a lawyer, but the best information I have is that there is no concept of an "official language" in English or Scottish law. The Welsh Language Act affirms a general principle that "the English and Welsh languages should be treated on a basis of equality" in public business in Wales, but doesn't use the term "official language".
The procedure for giving Royal Assent to bills and passing them into law involves a proclamation in Norman French, so maybe that's our official language...
Rob
([[River Avon, Bristol]] at 23:13 GMT)