Scottish English
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Thu Oct 20 23:21:13 CEST 2005
At 14:05 -0700 2005-10-20, Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com wrote:
>Michael,
>
>I never expressed an intention to use "Gaelic" to represent Irish. I
>intend to use "Gaelic (Irish)." I don't use the terms "Mandarin" or
>"Mandarin Chinese" either. I use "Chinese (Mandarin)" and "Chinese
>(Cantonese)" for the same reason. This helps the user classifying
>the content to see all types of Chinese available before making a
>classification. Inverting the base language name and its modifier is
>not an uncommon practice.
OK, I was just informing you of the precise terminology.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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