Hey guys,
I don't really know why you're arguing. I actively participate in the Catalan translation, despite of the fact that I'm not a regular forum user. But I think it's time to express my opinion about all those "pseudo political" (as jpg050 pointed out) posts and critics.
Some of you may know that the formerly non-official Catalan translator did a version which had at the beginning some typical Valencian verb forms and expressions (in fact he IS Valencian, so he's obviously used to that expressions and assumed them as so-called central Catalan). We reported those issues and regularized the language to a rather standard form which every (native) Catalan, Valencian, Balear islander, North Catalan (in France) most Eastern Aragoneses and the inhabitants of the city of Alguer in Sardinia would understand (hopefully
).
And it's OK.
But some Valencians might be used to those (often-appearing) expressions and forms and feel more comfortable with them than with the central Catalan ones. And might like to have the add-on in Valencian, as well as Balear islanders and Alguereses could.
There's even one case of a region in North-West Catalonia, that has an own language (or call it how you like) that sounds REALLY different from Catalan. That's the Aranese. Spoken regularly by not more than 3.000 people, I'm afraid (I didn't mention Occitan).
The spelling has great differences, as well as the pronunciation. A native Central-Catalan can hardly understand it in written form. Spoken is almost impossible.
It's legally recognised by Catalan Law as a regional official language like Catalan and Spanish.
But:
None did cry out: "We want MP! in Aranese!!". None seems to be interested (as far as I know, remember I'm not a regular forum user).
Anyway, if they felt once that need, what's the problem of having an Aranese translation? Would someone else care if a little group of Araneses wanted MP! in Aranese? Let them do!
And that's what a huge number of Valencians are claiming. Whether it's a political problem or not , I personally think it's fair if a large group of Valencian MP! users choose Valencian as the most comfortable language to use. As well as I'd accept
Mexican,
Low Saxon or
'Bad Dutch'.
I mean it's okay if Patchou accepts a non-official language since a large number of Valencian users may claim.
If it's a matter of space, why not a language downloader that downloads the language directly from the server during the installation? Nice feature that'd allow us to have the language updated whenever we wanted. Well, maybe someday it'd be real, till then, let them do, they aren't bothering that much.
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