As a native English speaker it sounds fine but slightly archaic.

On 29 Oct 2009 14:48, "Randal L. Schwartz" <mer...@stonehenge.com> wrote:

>>>>> "Oleg" == Oleg Kostyuk <cub.ua...@gmail.com> writes:

Oleg> I'm not native English speaker, but as I see, Google translate is know
Oleg> about "people" and "peoples", in meaning "nation" and "nations". And I
Oleg> think with original phrase, "Peoples of [%- planet -%] ..." - it
Oleg> sounds reasonable, isn't? ;)

Still sounds odd to this native speaker.

You would use "peoples" if you're referring collectively to the various
people
in many nations, and the fact that they are organized into nations are
essential to convey.

But as a planet, we'd say "people of Earth", or maybe (although I haven't
heard this): "peoples of the nations of Earth".

In any case, "peoples" is rare, and should probably just be avoided.

--
Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
<mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion

_______________________________________________ templates mailing list
templa...@template-toolkit.o...
_______________________________________________
templates mailing list
templates@template-toolkit.org
http://mail.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates

Reply via email to