Hello,
You said before:
other things are considered as well prior
to giving the eligible status.
As indicated earlier, all members of the language
committee were explicitly asked to consider the issue that you raise.
And
The reason why the *internal *deliberations of the language committee are
not open is because one of the members is not free to
have the deliberations
published.
Those imply an argument that goes beyond a simple question. And that is what
I was referring to (and I guess that's what others are referring to as
well).
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com
Hoi,
Again, when the proposal for Egyptian Arabic was posted, I asked the
members
of the language committee if we should allow for these languages to have a
Wikipedia. The reply was that we should. Nobody opposed this. Consequently
after a week, the status of eligible was given.
This is all the argument as it happened. Again, this has been said
before...
Thanks,
GerardM
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Muhammad Alsebaey <shipmaster(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Of course the process is political. There's
nothing wrong with that.
> Every time two or more people differ on some issue, deciding that issue
> requires political interaction, whether it's choosing between the
> opinions offered or synthesizing a new compromise position. Politics
is
> not just partisan activity connected with
established ideologies,
though
> politicians umbilically associated with such
ideologies are the ones
who
give
politics a bad name.
Using "too political" as an excuse for not participating in the debates
of the day is itself a political act.
Ec
Hmm I think I meant it in the latter regard: Politics as a partisan
activity connected with established ideologies, since the choice bolsters
one of the sides in an ongoing -'partisan' if you may, the term is used
loosely since there is no efficient official parties on the Egyptian
scene
except the ruling one- debate in Egypt.
However, I have to say that Gerard already made it clear that politics is
not part of the equation in LangCom decision, so they dont take it as a
factor, of course, we will not know what actually was a factor since the
arguments are not published.
--
Best Regards,
Muhammad Alsebaey
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