Re: Re: Those domains are also still free

Ray Saintonge <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:05:28 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.international
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ramanan Selvaratnam wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 19:07, Walter Vermeir wrote:
>
>>Jimmy Wales wrote:
>>
>>>Can you research for me the least expensive places I can buy
>>>these?
>>>
>>I do not know where the are the least expensive. The Wikipedians of the 
>>wiki's of those countries should know.
>>
>Your question simply misses me. This is grossly unfair.
>
>Again my language tamil has no country!
>If any India is by far the largest population.
>Wait till you touch on the Urdu or Bengali issue :)
>Honestly I will be laugjhing at you then.
>There are many mnay examples that propabbly could be captured on the
>wikis for the next sillymove like this to be pointed at.
>
>Also again, it must be stressed that this will only entangle people and
>confuse some to feel left out.
>The argument that .be is there why not me is enough as it is.
>
You seem to be confusing the fact that country domain codes and language 
codes are different.

Thus as a domain code "be" represents Belgium, but as a language code 
represents Belorussian.

Also Canada's domain is "ca", but as a language it represents Catalan.

For Tamil it is important to remember that it is a language of two 
countries.

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