On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 08:29, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 27. Aug 2019, at 23:00, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Oh, and you say that a sty is for pigs (correct) and a sty is for cows > (incorrect) > > probably just a copy +paste problem, and should have been cowshed > Yeah, that was my thought, too. But given the nature of the rest of it, I wasn't certain. This appears to be a typical language issue: in German there is one word > (de:Stall) which is used for the “house” of many animals, e.g. cows, pigs, > horses and chicken. To a German it seems complicated having completely > different words for it, Ah. That would explain the thinking behind it. But not the lack of thought given to the infeasibility of hijacking a tag used several thousand times. > but as we use English tags, where stable is dedicated for horses, it would > be misleading and unnatural for the rest of the mappers to use it for > cowsheds or pigsties. I am also opposing this proposal. > Technically, in English, a stable is for any kind of livestock. But in common usage it has long meant a place for horses. I doubt you'd find many British English speakers who would think of a stable as anything other than for horses. Ask them what's kept in a stable and the answer won't be "animals" it will be "horses." If he were to propose some other value (I can't think of one) for a generic livestock-holding building then I would have less reason to object to the proposal. But I probably would still object - we have 24,000 stables and 9,900 cowsheds. Pigs don't get many mentions, and we have a strange mix of names for buildings for them (what's a pig_ark?). There are over 1,300 chicken_coops. It would be a lot of pain to switch with very little gain that I can see. Maybe he could make a persuasive argument for it. -- Paul
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