Re: Suggestion

[Danilo Segan <dsegan gmx net>]

петак, 05. септембар 2003. 17:23:16 CEST — Noah Levitt написа:
> 
> In case you were planning to put this verbatim into the
> release notes, "no one" is two words.
>

Nah, I didn't plan to do that. Anyway, thanks for the correction ;-)

I actually hope to get a more realistic estimate of population that  
understands "American English" -- 500 million? More?

> 
> According to http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=POR,
> there are 158 million Portuguese speakers in Brazil, and 10
> million in Portugal, plus a few more elsewhere.
>

Oh, this will not be so easy to sort out -- Pedro Morais claims that  
there are more 175 million in Brazil alone, and yet ethnologue contains  
a much smaller number.

In these cases, I suggest rounding down and using "over ...".

> The thing about Chinese is that many different languages are
> written more or less exactly the same way (Mandarin and
> Cantonese for example), so you have to add up the native
> speakers of all those languages. My guess is that the
> population of China, rounded down to the nearest hundred
> million ;-), is a good enough estimate for Simplified, and
> the population of Taiwan is good enough for Traditional,
> respectively 1.2 billion and 22.6 million.

Okay, I'll put this in (but I'll follow Abel's and Noah's advices, and  
put 40 million for traditional).

In light of his comments, I'm not quite sure what to put as a title:  
"speakers" is not suitable in that case, so does anyone have any better  
wording?

I was actually planning on putting word "speakers" only in the first  
language title (because of alphabetic ordering, that would be "American  
English"), and leaving it out from the others.


Cheers,
Danilo