[Lilux-help] Google.lu & German

Kymon MacDaire kymon at gmx.net
Sat Jun 5 22:47:33 CEST 2004


isn't customization one of the outstanding properties of linux that the 
community is so proud of? so for the same reason that i personally 
wouldn't bother much whether kde or gnome comes as default on my linux 
distribution, i wouldn't care either about french or german being 
default for google.lu, as long as one can customize it. besides, 
computationally speaking, the differences between french and german are 
so small that the same formalisms can be used to model both, so what? ;)

best regards,

kymon

ps: for those being curious about luxembourgish: according to the 
"Section de linguistique, d'ethnologie et d'onomastique" of the 
"Institut Royal Grand-Ducal De Luxembourg" at http://www.igd-leo.lu/ :
"When, pushed by incursions of the populations of Central Asia, the 
nations of Germania moved westward, overthrowing on their turn the 
frontiers and peoples of the Roman empire, the Franks settled down in 
the Luxembourg area. Their language (Moselfränkisch) is at the origin of 
the Luxembourg language."
note that a society using a -french- designation uses -english- to write 
about the -germanic- origins of -luxembourgish-.
diversity and freedom of choice, let's be glad about it :)




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