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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone
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Nicolas Ruiz |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone |
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Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:45:13 -0400 |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Nicolas Ruiz wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Thomas Moschny wrote:
>>>> On Friday 16 March 2007, Lapo Luchini wrote:
>>>>> « » really really look bad though...
>>>> Those are french, aren't they?
>>> Those are used in spanish.
>> Nobody told me to use those in all these years....
>> </tongue_in_cheek>
>
> That's because we're used to the more widespread plain double quotes
> (""). But the cool guys say different. For example, check [1].
> (BTW this guy says that these quotes should be used in french as well.)
>
> The Debian spanish translation group agrees with me [2], so the «» quotes
> are used pervasively there. I do that as well in Postgres, after
> extensive investigation on the matter because my escepticism mirrored
> yours.
You are correct in that («») can be used to quote in spanish, but
according to the Larousse's "Ortografía Lengua Española", both forms are
equally valid.
I will continue using double quotes though; I'd rather use the widely
used form over the academically correct one. Plus I suspect the debian
translation group is mostly constituted by spaniards, given that they
tend to use words like "fichero" and "castellano", which are hardly ever
used in Latin America.
> [1] http://www.medtrad.org/panacea/IndiceGeneral/n11-editorialsousa.pdf
> [2] http://www.debian.org/international/spanish/notas
>
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Ralf S. Engelschall, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2007/03/15
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Thomas Moschny, 2007/03/15
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Thomas Moschny, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Alvaro Herrera, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Nicolas Ruiz, 2007/03/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Alvaro Herrera, 2007/03/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone,
Nicolas Ruiz <=
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2007/03/18
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Nicolas Ruiz, 2007/03/18
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2007/03/15
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2007/03/16
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Justin Patrin, 2007/03/15
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Messages in monotone, Zack Weinberg, 2007/03/15
Re: [Monotone-devel] Messages in monotone, Thomas Moschny, 2007/03/15
Re: [Monotone-devel] Messages in monotone, Nathaniel Smith, 2007/03/15