Anthere wrote:
Every little bit can help perhaps. What else would you
suggest we can do ?
For the most part we are limited to encouragement and letting them know
that the medium is there for them.
We did the same with our languages, breton, basque,
corse... The french unity is not so much relying on
political unity, than cultural, linguistic and
religious (less and less now of course, but the
principles running the society are christian based
even if we are a laic state). To achieve that unity,
in the past time, kids also were hit at school if they
talk their "home-language" (patois).
I'm familiar with that, but the Corsicans have never been content to be
a part of France. Of course one has to distinguish between what
Christians say and what they do.
The Encyclopedia is not translated and will not be
translated in other languages. Each language is free
'''in''' its own creativity. Articles from one
language can
>influence another language. But they are not copies.
>
Some topics, I cannot even translate from english to
french because I do not know the french words for
these.
If it's '''just''' a matter of words, a good dictionary
can deal with
it. Cultural context is more difficult.
By the Ec... the definition for "sect" seems
to be
notably different from our "secte".
Someone changed the international link and now our
"secte" is linked with your "cult".
What do you think ?
That's tricky, because I know that the words are used differently. In
English "sect" is often used to distinguish different religious
sub-groups. Among Protestants Lutherens, Calvinists, Presbyterians,
etc. are all protestant sects. There is some affinity with schismatics
whose separation from the church was more often for reasons relating to
the governance of the church than to theology. Any of these groups
tends to still be socialy acceptable.
"Cult" is more often used to refer to deviant religious groups,
heretics with significant doctrinal differences. Outsiders sometimes
tend to believe, without a stitch of evidence that the cultists do weird
things like drinking blood or engaging in orgies.
I haven't researched the matter, but my impression is that in French
"culte" is far more socially acceptable.
Ec