Dave F wrote: > What's the difference between 'de facto' & official?
Martin beat me to it, but let me add links for reference, definition and examples. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_language > An official language is a language that is given a special legal status [...] > the term "official language" does not typically refer to the language used by > a people or country, but by its government. from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/de_facto, please appreciate the provided sentence for use case. > Adjective. de facto (not comparable) > In fact or in practice; in actual use or existence, regardless of official or > legal status. > (Often opposed to de jure.) > Although the United States currently has no official language, it is largely > monolingual with English being the de facto national language. The contrary of 'de facto' is 'de jure' https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/de_jure > Adjective. de jure (not comparable) > By right, in accordance with the law, legally. Another good reading is the wikipedia page, particularly the introduction at the top https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto and the part on national languages, quite relevant here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto#National_languages > Wars have been fought over disagreements between "choices by local > community" Indeed. And when it gets out of control, global community and DataWG can intervene if necessary. But that is not a reason, quite the contrary, to start another war between local community and remote/global community. Especially when there is no disagreement locally. Even more so when there was disagreement locally and it is settled now. -- althio _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
