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Re: [Ltru] More about Description fields



Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com scripsit:

> Even IMDB, considered by many to be the world's most authoritative source 
> of film metadata, does not make proper distinctions between Irish and 
> Gaelic. (I'm not sure they use the term "Irish" at all, so everything ends 
> up as "Gaelic.") 

A quick look shows that IMDB does not distinguish between Irish and Scottish
Gaelic at all, merging them under the term "Gaelic".  (There are probably
no movies with Manx dialogue.)

> I recommend the use of these and other inverted forms and I won't 
> apologize for it. I'll save my apologies for the occasion when a user 
> purchases a "Gaelic" film that is actually in Irish from a Sony Pictures 
> service.

They'll be able to follow it anyhow, at least if it is about "fishing
and bawdy" (O'Brian).

-- 
John Cowan  <cowan at ccil.org>  http://ccil.org/~cowan
Micropayment advocates mistakenly believe that efficient allocation of
resources is the purpose of markets.  Efficiency is a byproduct of market
systems, not their goal.  The reasons markets work are not because users
have embraced efficiency but because markets are the best place to allow
users to maximize their preferences, and very often their preferences are
not for conservation of cheap resources.  --Clay Shirkey

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