The simple search is already set to all languages. Remember, I discovered that if you just click the search button in simple search without filling out anything you get in your results every book in the Bookshare collection. That doesn't work in the advanced search though. You will just get every book in the collection that is in the language you specify, the default being American English and if you click search without filling out anything, but change the language to all languages you will get nothing. However, If you do fill out something, and that will be the case with virtually all searches unless you just want to find out how many books are in the collection, you can easily change the language to all languages. The point of using the advanced search is to specify different parameters anyway and changing the language is really easy. What I would prefer to see is that British and American English not be treated as different languages, or at least that we be given the ability to search more than one language at a time while excluding others. I suppose that there might be some reasons to search either American or British English while excluding the other, but I really can't think of any. After all, they are just different ways of spelling for the most part and the part that is not just differences in spelling are the kind of differences we have between Chicago and Austin.
On 4/3/2012 1:13 PM, Valerie Maples wrote:
While they are "kissing cousins", there are strong vocabulary and grammar differences, enough, IMHO, to warrant a different label. Again, my preference would be that default be set to all languages instead of American English only...Valerie Join us in celebrating our 10th Anniversary! Bookshare: Bringing Reading to Life for 10 Years http://www.bookshare.org/ *From:* Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx *Sent:* Tue, April 3, 2012 8:42:03 AM *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: designating language of a bookI don't like the fact that British and American English are treated as different languages, but there are differences nevertheless. In the interest of truth in advertizing I think the difference should be indicated. I also think it might not be a bad idea to just lump British and American English together as English, but as long as they are labeled differently I wouldn't want a book in British English falsely represented as in American English.On 4/3/2012 3:38 AM, Cindy wrote:Are we to continue to indicate when a book's English is UK or, since some books so indicated don't get found when searched for (unless a person remembers to change the language in the search to Any), or should we just designate it as U.S., which seems to be the defaultCindyJoin us in celebrating our 10^th Anniversary! <http://blog.bookshare.org/2012/03/11/join-bookshares-worldwide-10th-anniversary-celebration/><http://blog.bookshare.org/2012/03/11/join-bookshares-worldwide-10th-anniversary-celebration/> TinyURL.com/752cyrs <http://TinyURL.com/752cyrs>
