Re: ترجمة الاشهر

["Djihed Afifi" <djihedlists at googlemail dot com>]

I vote for Gregorian as well, because they are closest to western
names, which makes them the easiest to understand (As mentioned by
Khaled Hosny).

Djihed

On 30/07/06, Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj <aalarfaj at gmail dot com> wrote:
> On 7/30/06, محمد سعد <520026770069-0001 at t-online dot de> wrote:
> [...]
> > > QAC[1] should decide on these issues, I'm not sure whether it is active
> > > anymore?
> > well the best solution is to reactivate it, because english to arabic sound
> > translation ( يناير، فبراير,.....) in my opinion would not be that easy for
> > people not aware of them.
>
> I understand what you mean here. Consider this however: the number of
> people who are not aware of the Babylonian names, far exceeds the
> number of people who dont know the Gregorian names.
>
> Our convention so far has been to use the Gregorian names as opposed
> to the Babylonian. When we can handle different locales, we will be
> able to have different versions.
>
> But for the moment, I think you will find the vast majority are in
> favour of Gregorian names.
>
> Salam,
>
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