[Foundation-l] On Arabic and sub-language proposals.

Ting Chen wing.philopp at gmx.de
Thu Oct 9 06:24:42 UTC 2008


Muhammad Alsebaey wrote:
> Hi Ting,
>
> In the days since I have first sent my email, I talked to several people,
> and due to their arguments, I am less worried now about division of effort,
> however, I still strongly believe that my arguments about the language being
> mostly a spoken one with no stable orthography and that by WMF approving any
> of those dialects/language, it will be essentially making a political stand,
> still hold.
>   
No, I don't think that we make any political stand. For me politics is 
neither an argument for nor against anything. If you are saying that the 
LangCom is political insensitive, for me it is not a failure. For me it 
is a merit.

Ting



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