[Foundation-l] Simple Spanish?

James Hare messedrocker at gmail.com
Wed Jun 21 23:36:32 UTC 2006


Indeed.

Also, the typical reasoning to allow dead language Wikipedias like Old
English and Latin is for using as learning tools. Surely Wikipedia Sencillo
can function the same way?

On 6/21/06, Johan Bos <skatinghacker at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree that Spanish is not too difficult, but it will take a lot of
> effort
> to learn sufficient Spanish to be able to read a Spanish article without
> using a dictionary. A "sencillo" article will be readable without a
> dictionary for anyone with a basic knowlegde of Spanish.
>
> Another advantage is that probable most Italian and Portugese people will
> be
> able to read "sencillo", without even knowing any Spanish.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Johan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Austin Hair" <adhair at gmail.com>
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 12:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Simple Spanish?
>
>
> > On 6/21/06, Johan Bos <skatinghacker at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> Not as far as I know. I just meant articles in simple Spanish words.
> >> Readable for people who just understand for example 1500 words.
> >
> > English is the most widely spoken second language on the planet, the
> > lingua franca of international communication; it's also really hard.
> > The argument for the "simple English" editions is that with more
> > non-native speakers than native ones, a special effort should be made
> > to cater to those who haven't quite mastered this undoubtedly
> > difficult tongue.  While I don't agree, I do recognize the validity of
> > that point of view.
> >
> > While Spanish may have more native speakers, it doesn't enjoy the same
> > ubiquity, and its mostly regular syntax means it doesn't pose the same
> > difficulty to novices.  You seem to acknowledge the second point
> > yourself when you talk about "sencillo" as nothing more than a
> > limited-vocabulary edition of the Spanish Wikipedia.
> >
> > We're only just starting to recover from the damage done by the
> > infamous Enciclopedia Libre fork, and I can't see anyone supporting
> > any division of those efforts right now.
> >
> > Austin
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