320:- I agree it's regretful that so much work went into this, but... so much of this is arbitrary and random, besides being based apparently entirely on Google Translate, which is pretty bottom-of-the-barrel as far as sources go. Most of this wouldn't even meet criteria for a non-English redirect, and it... just doesn't seem to have any clear encyclopedic purpose. Presumably, even if someone did for some reason want to know the name of Bern in Hungarian, they would just go to google translate, and not prefer to use an unwieldy and fairly arbitrary table, even if they could find it. The cities chosen appear to be purely OR, as does the languages chosen (Why leave out so many of
435:, if I only knew how, I would have marked vertical lines between Germanic, Romance, Slavic and Uralic languages. And also indicated a "bondry" to Hungarian, which isn't an Indo-European language at all. English first, then in "size order" - within Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages. (perhaps Italian should change position with Spanish, though). Would there be any advantage in adding languages which are not spelled with Latin letters ? I chose to begin with languages spelled with Latin letters. One idea is to compare spellings, but I have encountered confusion of for instance Prague and Vienna in the past, here at this Wiki.
893:. I no longer wish to defend it (including the horrific name I gave it). A reasonable and valid criticism is accepted for my part, such as what Knowledge (XXG) isn't supposed to be. The minor adjustments I've done today, was only done in order to try to illustrate, there were no OR or any random selection, in my intentions. But as other, and valid arguments has been presented, I now hope for Userfy. And I won't object to a deletion if the outcome will be that instead. Sorry for this and thanks!
425:, but I'm certain someone with better knowledge could fix that. About further languages - yes, naturally. I began with 6 or 7 and have added several after that. Anyone can add a new language. (If it "survives", my intention is to add Finnish (as a second Uralic language) and Portuguese (which I guess is the largest not available). And then a very large majority of all Latin spelled languages, spoken in Europe will be covered. (But naturally further languages can still be added)
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English pronunciation, no transtation has been required. But "Deutchland" has called for a translation, also in Romance languages. (Whilst the Dutch "Duitland" and Scandinavian "Tyskland" are more of local adaptions) Etc. So there is a clear linguistic purpose and objective included (which will increase if it is expanded), in my opinion.
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Capital ones, are chosen from an linguistic interesting point of view. It's not much point in adding for instance
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