Re: Implementing support for barbarisms correction

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 02:32:01 EDT

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     --- Joaquín Cuenca Abela <cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr>
    wrote:

    > A more convoluted case will be Spanish. In Spain
    > everybody uses "ordenador" (just guess who give us
    > that idea... :), but in latin america everybody
    > uses "computadora" (or "computador", it changes with
    > the exact country).

    Do we prefer the evil anglicism or the evil galicism
    (:
    This is an illustration of the need for regional
    support in proofing tools which we already have though
    there are plenty of dictionaries missing.

    > And the example that Jordi used, "tamany" instead of
    > "mida"... well, after several years studying catalan
    > (in the south valencia zone), I've never heard
    > before of "mida". I've always heard "tamany", so
    > maybe that's another example that changes with the
    > region, and here we have a problem, because AFAIK
    > the user can not specify ca-VA or ca-CA, but just
    > ca-ES. (I can also be blatantly wrong here, as I

    Please see this bug report:
    http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3227
    Need to extend language tags

    Add some comments there so we can know in which
    directions to improve the system if needed.

    Andrew.

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