From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:47:56 GMT
Subject: Re: 'gittutorial(7)' translation
Message-ID: <BANLkTimDqYVM6qcJfedvj3LeQsJ58piM=g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110428104737.GB9063@jakstys.lt>

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:47, Motiejus Jakštys <desired.mta@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:59:15AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:12, Bohdan Zograf <bozograf@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 19.04.2011 21:19, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason пишет:
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 16:09, MR<by.marcis@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> > Posted my Belorussian translation on
>> > http://webhostingrating.com/libs/gittutorial. If you don't mind can you
>> > publish a tiny link with a text
>> >
>> > <a href="http://webhostingrating.com/libs/gittutorial">Belorussian
>> > translation</a> or whatever you feel is right.
>>
>> That we way could translate any of our documentation and ship it as
>> part of Git itself, so you could have a Russian gittutorial manpage
>> installed along with Git.
>
> Dear Ævar,
>
> Russian != Belorussian, and it might insult some Belorussians (from my
> personal experience) by calling their language "Russian". Belorussian is
> quite rare and people are trying to save it as hard as they can from
> Russian influence. It is a tough problem..
>
> They even have statue in Minsk for the only letter that exists in
> Belorussian, but does not exist in Russian: ў.
>
> I just wanted you to know that. Simple "apologies" might be a very nice
> thing.

Sorry about that. I just glanced at the E-Mail and the translation
itself looked similar to Russian to my untrained eyes.

I stand corrected.