Timothy Hobbs wrote:
that seems a bit rude.
Which is why we didn't seriously consider it. I am preity sure it is the other way around. (spanish
is a dialect of italian.)
Both Spanish and Italian are dialects of neo-Latin. But Spanish is the word that got the gismu because it is one of the 6 source languages.
It is also quite incorrect. You could have new latin and western new latin, BUT NOT EASTERN SPANISH!
It would merely require defining spano to mean more broadly "southern Romance language/culture".
It is just plain wrong.
Based solely on population, Spanish is the mainstream and Italian is the dialect. This is not based on history or values or anything other than plain numbers.
and also eastern spanish would not properly represent the cultures involved. and seems quite offensive. (ie, genericide of celibrated diferences).
Treating the two languages and cultures as being a commonalty would intentionally be papering over the differences. This is controversial, so we didn't seriously consider it.
I don't accualy know anything. that responce was wholy from the emotional side of my brain.
Whereas my statement regarding the reasoning was attempting to entirely exclude any emotional considerations.
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