[Foundation-l] Re: New language policy
Manuel G R
mgrojo at ya.com
Wed Nov 23 22:43:01 UTC 2005
ilooy wrote:
> 2005/11/23, Pawe³ Dembowski <fallout at lexx.eu.org>:
>>Are the differences much bigger than between British and American
>>English? Are texts in Andalusian intelligible to Castilian speakers?
What text are you talking about? All the proposed spellings for the new
Wikipedia are intelligible to all Spanish speakers. I don't know of
published texts using those spellings. Of course, it is hard to read
your language in a totally new spelling, but it is almost a character
replacement pattern.
>
> Hi, Pawe³,
> The difference is quite obvious to
> someone who hears both Andalusian
> and Castilian. I truly believe an Andalusian
> language wiki should be formed.
>
I think you are basing your whole expirience in how different Andalusian
and Northern pronunciation has been to your ear. But take into account
that a stranger's understanding of an accent is handicapped. It happens
to me with English. I only understand Standard British and Standard
American speeches. The remaining accents are totally not understandable
to me. I have not any problem understanding Andalusians, nor any other
Spaniard has.
But language domain are not only based on pronunciation. Grammar,
syntax, lexicon... are categorical. And on that side, there are no
differences.
> Both American and British English have
> their own forms of speech, and there are
> quite varied regional differences, but most
> are usually understandable, there are of
> course some regional forms of speech
> in the UK that I have a really hard time
> understanding. I'm sure you probably do
> as well... maybe...
Would you support Wikipedias written in a new spelling tailored to those
regional speeches?
Greetings.
Manuel Gomez.
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