[Data-modeling] Adjective form of locations

[Alec Flett]

Fortunately, MQL does provide language-specific strings (in fact all / 
type/text strings are localizable)

Regarding the localization of the actual string - The typical way to  
address this issue is to make the string into a substitution string of  
some kind like:

"French {thing}"

And then it's up to the localizers to determine the best phrasing.  
i.e. a valid secondary english string could be "{thing} that is from  
France" - using the same substitution, you still get a semi-readable  
string.

Obviously this doesn't address singular vs. plural, verb/noun  
conjugation, etc... but again this is kind of up to the localizer to  
make the phrase that makes the most sense in a given language.

Alec

On Apr 15, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote:

> You should be very careful to specify the language, of course,
> and keep in mind that this exercise is infeasible in many
> languages where the adjectival form (and even phrase structure)
> varies depending on the specific noun.
>
> Even in English, the adjectival forms for many places can
> be unwieldy or even ambiguous: "Cotswoldan Cheeses,"
> "Muscovite Museums," "Neapolitan Ice Cream."
>
> TBKK
>
> On Apr 15, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Ed Laurent wrote:
>> Sounds like a great idea to me.
>>
>> -Ed
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Robert Cook <robert at metaweb.com>
>> wrote:
>> I'm starting to find the need for applications to have the adjective-
>> form of place names ("France" vs "French", "United States" vs
>> "American") so that queries could automatically title lists of, say,
>> cheeses that are from the region "France" with "French Cheeses".
>>
>> Here's a list of adjective place names (along with demonyms, which  
>> are
>> less important, but still useful)
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adjectival_forms_of_place_names
>>
>> I'm considering adding a property to "statistical region" called,
>> perhaps "adjective form of name".
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>> R
>>
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