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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 17 of 29 04 February 2008 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I remember Leserables expressing a wish that Luxembourgish (his native language) was added, and I have seen several posts requesting Taiwanese.
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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6769 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 18 of 29 04 February 2008 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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There's already a good thread in the Member's Lounge that lists significant missing languages.
For my part, I nominate the major West African languages: Yoruba, Hausa, and Igbo. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6317 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 19 of 29 04 February 2008 at 8:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Administrator, here's a basic list of the ones that still require addition so far:
Luxembourgish "Gaelic" on its own can now be deleted and replaced with Irish, since Scottish Gaelic has now been added. Urdu already exists, joined to Hindi as Hindi/Urdu. So, Hindi should be liberated and made into a language by itself. Taiwanese and Shanghainese have been requested in the past also. Yoruba, Hausa, and Igbo. Have I missed anything out? Edited by Fränzi on 04 February 2008 at 8:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 7189 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin | Message 20 of 29 04 February 2008 at 8:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
However, a few amends should still be made for some of these languages. You now have "Hindi/Urdu" and "Urdu". What about just Hindi? I think you should entirely get rid of Hindi/Urdu and just have two separate entries: Hindi and Urdu. Also, You now have "Scottish Gaelic" and "Gaelic". Problem here is "Gaelic" on its own generally refers to Scottish Gaelic, meaning there's no mention of the other one, Irish Gaelic. What you need are two entries: "Scottish Gaelic" and "Irish Gaelic". Lastly, maybe a bit nitpicky, but perhaps "Sign Language" instead of "ASL", as ASL refers specifically to American Sign Language, and not to a sign language in general. Rather than having a bunch of entries "ASL", "BSL", "Japanese Sign Language" etc, I think it would be better to just have "Sign Language". 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6317 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 21 of 29 04 February 2008 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Gaelic and Irish might be easier; saves space.
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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7377 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 22 of 29 05 February 2008 at 10:56am | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks - I have updated both Gaelics and the ASL, now Sign Language. Let me know if there are any other to change. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jody Senior Member United States Joined 6239 days ago 242 posts - 252 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Bulgarian | Message 23 of 29 05 February 2008 at 12:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I would be more interested in seeing full profiles of more languages. As a speaker of only English, I cannot really help much. But if a native speaker of a few other languages would add a profile, i would be very happy.
A few that I'd like to see: Polish Farsi Hebrew Hindi/Urdu Norwegian/Swedish/Danish 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| IbanezFire Senior Member United States Joined 6695 days ago 119 posts - 124 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Russian | Message 24 of 29 05 February 2008 at 3:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think more language profiles would be a nice addition. I would also like to some of the profiles text formatted, the Slovak Profile is just blobs of text, no formatting.
If the profiles became too large for the sidebar you could always break them down into family groups and allow the individual to select the family and look at the languages. Maybe there is some way to give others, reputable members only a few, power just to edit the profiles for inaccuracies, formatting, etc. Edited by IbanezFire on 05 February 2008 at 3:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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