[bksvol-discuss] Re: designating language of a book
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 12:51:03 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks. You're right, Roger. You did say that --and I didn't remember. smile
Cindy
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> From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2012 10:33 AM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: designating language of a book
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>The simple search is already set to all languages. Remember, I discovered that
>if you just click the search button in simple search without filling out
>anything you get in your results every book in the Bookshare collection. That
>doesn't work in the advanced search though. You will just get every book in
>the collection that is in the language you specify, the default being American
>English and if you click search without filling out anything, but change the
>language to all languages you will get nothing. However, If you do fill out
>something, and that will be the case with virtually all searches unless you
>just want to find out how many books are in the collection, you can easily
>change the language to all languages. The point of using the advanced search
>is to specify different parameters anyway and changing the language is really
>easy. What I would prefer to see is that British and American English not be
>treated as different languages, or at least
that we be given the ability to search more than one language at a time while
excluding others. I suppose that there might be some reasons to search either
American or British English while excluding the other, but I really can't think
of any. After all, they are just different ways of spelling for the most part
and the part that is not just differences in spelling are the kind of
differences we have between Chicago and Austin.
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>On 4/3/2012 1:13 PM, Valerie Maples wrote:
>While they are "kissing cousins", there are strong vocabulary and grammar
>differences, enough, IMHO, to warrant a different label. Again, my preference
>would be that default be set to all languages instead of American English
>only...
>>
Valerie
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>>From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
>>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Sent: Tue, April 3, 2012 8:42:03 AM
>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: designating language of a book
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>>I don't like the fact that British and American English
are treated as different languages, but there are
differences nevertheless. In the interest of truth in
advertizing I think the difference should be indicated. I
also think it might not be a bad idea to just lump British
and American English together as English, but as long as
they are labeled differently I wouldn't want a book in
British English falsely represented as in American
English.
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>>On 4/3/2012 3:38 AM, Cindy wrote:
>> Are we to continue to indicate when a book's English is UK or, since some
>>books so indicated don't get found when searched for (unless a person
>>remembers to change the language in the search to Any), or should we just
>>designate it as U.S., which seems to be the default
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>>>Cindy
>>>Join us in celebrating our 10th Anniversary!
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>>>TinyURL.com/752cyrs
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