[Foundation-l] Signal languages Wikimedia projects

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sun Nov 23 17:34:27 UTC 2008


2008/11/23 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:

> I think the shifting definition of 'own language'. In discussions of
> other languages which follow national borders 'own language' has been
> defined to be the language spoken by a persons ancestors, regardless
> of what a person prefers to use.


Not to mention, to cross threads, when e.g. a Moldovan declares that a
Transdneistrian's language is not their own, does not exist and if it
does exist it shouldn't, and that everyone else should follow that
declaration.


- d.



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