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Poll Question: Would you like new languages t
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Yes, please	63	[90.00%]
Don’t really caresc	7	[10.00%]
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Chung
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Message 25 of 29

05 February 2008 at 3:45pm | IP Logged

When I drew up the Slovak profile, I had formatted everything and it looked OK in the Collaborative Writing room. For some reason the transfer didn't happen smoothly and I was surprised to see everything as massive paragraphs.

The Polish profile has been sitting in the Collaborative Writing room if you want to see it. Francois hasn't updated the section for language profiles for some time, so I imagine that he has been busier than when the forum first began a few years ago.
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ChristopherB
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Message 26 of 29

07 February 2008 at 1:22am | IP Logged

IbanezFire wrote:

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.

That's a good idea, and it would be worth having it broken down like that, as it could teach people about language families and linguistic relationships. But it might also be an awful lot of work to set up.

I think most of the languages have now been added, though I think Farsi/Persian should be named just Persian, as per what ProfArguelles said in a thread a while back:

ProfArguelles wrote:

To close, my thoughts about the name of this language: it has always been known as Persian, and in scholarly circles it still is, but for some reason in the past few decades it has become increasingly common to call it Farsi, which is indeed the Persian word for �Persian.� However, I think we would all agree that it would sound both stupid and pretentious, when speaking English, to say �I know Deutsch so well that I can read Nederlands too and even understand some Svenska and Dansk, and I�m also pretty good at Fran�ais and Espa�ol, and now I�m starting to learn Русский.� Why should a different standard apply for Persian? It shouldn�t and it doesn�t and it really sounds just as odd to call Persian Farsi.

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Nea Vanille
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Message 27 of 29

07 February 2008 at 5:11am | IP Logged

One major language missing in the language introduction section is Vietnamese.

Edited by Nea Vanille on 07 February 2008 at 5:15am
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diamondbacker
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10 February 2008 at 1:42am | IP Logged

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Edited by diamondbacker on 27 October 2009 at 6:12am
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Message 29 of 29

10 February 2008 at 1:58am | IP Logged

Right, Kannada. I've added it now.
This list is only the reflection of what forum members have asked in the past so they could add the languages they speak. It's not some form of 'Best-and-brightest-languages-of-the-world' contest. If a language you speak or study is not listed, just let me know.

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