<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Cartinus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cartinus@xs4all.nl">cartinus@xs4all.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Saturday 26 June 2010 06:18:08 Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:<br>
> name:alt:de is the German translation of the alternate name<br>
> name:de:alt is an alternate German name<br>
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</div>You really expect that people can keep something like that straight?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>It's somewhat logical. an element to the right of a colon qualifies everything to the left. additional right elements makes further qualifications.<br><br>name -> name<br>name:alt -> alternate name<br>
name:alt:de -> German of the alternate name<br><br>name -> name<br>
name:de -> German name<br>name:de:alt -> an alternate German name<br><br>And if people can't keep this straight, there's always the wiki. ;-)<br><br>I actually like the idea of converting alt_name to name:alt or name:alternate. It makes it possible to distinguish an alternate German name from a German translation of an alternate name if ever people want to tag that. We can't do this distinction at all with alt_name.<br>
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