Re: icons for languages

[Lucas Vieites <lucas asixinformatica com>]

El mar, 13-09-2005 a las 13:03 -0400, David Lodge escribió:
> Quoting Lucas Vieites <lucas asixinformatica com>:
> >  In this case I would just use the name of the language in that
> > language, eg: Dutch - Nederlands, German - Deutsch, Spanish - Español,
> > etc.
> >  Just a personal opinion, though.
> 
> This does seem to be the easiest and least controversial mechanism. The only
> problem comes from the implied flavour of the language: I know several English
> (i.e. nationality) people who get severly wound up when English (i.e. the
> language) is used to describe American English.
> 
> I think that you are always going to offend somebody no matter what you do.
> 
  Same thing with spanish, in Spain there are at least 5 flavours of
spanish (not counting the co-official languages), plus all the american
ones. We, at least, can say: There's an official "Royal Academy of the
Spanish Language" (www.rae.es). I don't know if there's an equivalent
for the English language.


> dave
> 
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