From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA@public.gmane.org>
To: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: localisation of "and others" in biblatex name lists
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:22:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rd6egca.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADAJKhAqNWMC6ZsNauj=gd2XMpkFaKNi92kk=z4LfW11TyYwtg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
On Tue, Feb 23 2021, BPJ wrote:
> The main linguistic problem I can see is that the proper form of 'others'
> may be gender dependent for some languages. In Icelandic it would be
> feminine, masculine or neuter depending on whether the list of others is
> all female, all male or mixed.
Neuter for a mixed list? That's interesting (and very good! ;-)
But why not stick to the Latin "et al." then? It has the gender abbreviated out
of it, and has the additional advantage that no localisation is necessary (well,
not in Europe, anyway...))
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
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2021-02-22 18:24 Carlos Franke
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2021-02-23 0:12 ` John MacFarlane
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2021-02-23 10:21 ` Carlos Franke
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2021-02-23 14:21 ` 'Nick Bart' via pandoc-discuss
2021-02-23 14:44 ` AW: " denis.maier-FfwAq0itz3ofv37vnLkPlQ
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2021-02-23 14:57 ` BPJ
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2021-02-23 19:22 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2021-02-23 14:54 ` Carlos Franke
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