Lexical conversion can be implemented as well for such vocabulary. What is important, is that the majority of the parts of the language is the same. The rest can be converted easily using Zhengzhu's conversion software, lossless-ly.
Mark
On 10/10/05, elephantus elephantus@net.hr wrote:
In the future sh.wiki hopes to implement an automatic converter between Cyrillic, Latin, Ijekavski, and Ekavski, so these stylistic/dialect/variety issues won't be a problem anymore.
Now, with such conversion, you wouldn't have to worry about edit wars over what norm is used, because no matter what norm it is written in, it is displayed in the chosen norm (possibly based on IP range-- users in Croatia and Bosnia get Ijekavian, users in Serbia get Ekavian; users in Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro get Latin alphabet, users in Serbia get Cyrillic, but of course you can change these preferences).
Mark
Differences between standard Serbian and Croatian are larger than just differences of ekavian/ijekavian. A text in Serbian converted to ijekavian feels to us just a little less Serbian (somewhat Bosnian) than the original, it's not somehow magically transformed into Croatian. And please, don't throw NPOV phrases at me, because how on earth are you going to NPOV-ize loads of technical, scientific and everyday vocabulary, syntax etc.? Do you plan to write slashes between variants? Write the same sentence twice? Believe me, all of this has been tried before, immense force, threats, everything was applied and the end result was the same – zero.
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