md0 wrote:azhong wrote:BTW, is there any order to list the translations?
In all my years on this forum, I never understood the ordering either, other than language families are grouped together.
So, I share your question.
I just grouped the Indo-European languages at the top, and grouped everything by language family/branch. In this case: Germanic first (because we started with English as the language to translate from, so it needs to be at the top), then Romance languages, then Greek, then Uralic, then Chinese.
I chose that order of language families because geographically they are moving (roughly) from west to east, and started with Germanic because of English, and alphabetized them within each group because why not. But I understand it like you do: language families are grouped together, other than that it doesn't matter. The only reason I changed them was because Chinese was between two Indo-European languages (German and Italian).
I was told to do it that way sometime back in the past and started doing my posts that way ever since but to be honest, I don't really care. It does make it a bit easier to check to see if a language is already listed when the list is long, but usually the lists aren't that long.
Edit: just saw Naava's response. I think we're describing the same thing. She said it better, but I'll leave mine too.