I have a few quibbles with that. It should also mention that you do sometimes see subtitles listed as Cantonese or Mandarin. In theory, all written forms of Chinese are the same, though Hong Kong has developed some localisms in the written language. They are basically the same and both should be entered as Chinese.

I speak Spanish and sometimes gets the similar words confused, so I'm perhaps not the best person to ask. It does look like Catalan has mostly taken over in English, though. It's the title of the Wikipedia article. Farsi seems to be well on its way to displacing Persian, but isn't there yet.

Agreed scooter but not always. There are titles which will have both a Spanish track and a castellano track, or maybe Chinese and mandarin or whatever.if there is one such film castellano, for example, should be listed as other in all cases, else it becomes data which is differentiated but for profiler purposes it becomes undifferentiated

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There are titles which will have both a Spanish track and a castellano track

The differences between Latin American Spanish and Spain Spanish (Castellano) are about as big or as small as are the differences between British English and American English.

Would you really list BE as "other" audio track, just because they say "lorry" instead of "truck" and "autumn" instead of "fall"?

What about Notting Hill? Ist that "mixed audio"?


Castellano is Spanish.
Inglés is English.


Molly: I'll join. Bit peckish as well.
Rona: Bit what well?
Anya: That's English for "hungry."
Rona: Oh. Here I thought "hungry" was English for "hungry."
(Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Quoting Winston Smith:

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Microsoft distinguishes between UK English and us English and others as well. Why shouldn't we

Because you can write a spellchecker against BE or AE or determine on how to format a date, but you can very rarely claim that all speakers in a given movie use the same accent. Or else I'm going to challenge that the language spoken in Die Hard is AE because Hans Gruber speaks parts of the movie (a crude) German and has otherwise a drift into Alan Rickman's BE.

When German native Franka Potente swears during The Bourne Identity she conveniently switches to German. Spike on Buffy uses a lot of colourful British words and gestures the FCC didn't recognize.

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Just as we list both American English and UK English as "English" in the program, and not as "Other", the same holds true for Spanish/Castellano/Español - enter them as "Spanish". .

you know it's this sort of sensible answer which really puts a damper on all those totally pointless and stupid arguments. Have you no shame?

And I was so looking forward to having every single US profile getting changed so that the English track became other. (on the basis that UK english would be proper English and therefore US English must be different..)

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Quoting Ken Cole:
And I was so looking forward to having every single US profile getting changed so that the English track became other. (on the basis that UK english would be proper English and therefore US English must be different..)

In rerefence the POLL issue:

(1) Castellano should be submited as "other".  NOOOOO. Castellano = Spanish
(2) Castellano should be submited as "spanish".  YES. That's right.
(3) Castellano should be submited as "catalonian".  NOOOOO. Catalonian (Catalan) is a different language than the castellano. Catalonian is more similar to french than to spanish. There are many DVDs and BR with spanish and catalonian tracks.

A fourth poll should be admited:
(4)  Castellano = SPANISH  and Latinamerican (or Spanish from America) = SPANISH LAS 

The question is, do we accept the rules of DVD and BR editors? Let's see exemple EAN 8717418184520. This is Bluray version of BLANCANIEVES Y LOS SIETE ENANITOS (SNOWWHITE AND SEVE DWARFS). This edition includes five DTS 5.1 tracks: CASTELLANO track (CASTILIAN), ESPAÑOL LATINOAMERICANO track (SPANISH LATINAMERICAN) , INGLES track (ENGLISH), ITALIANO track (ITALIAN) and HOLANDES track (DUTCH). Now it's introduced in basedate two SPANISH tracks but Invelos does not difference them. My suggestion is that SPANISH = Spanish from Spain or Castilian and create a second accepted language track as SPANISH LAS (= Spanish from America). Why SPANISH LAS?  This is how editors marks this kind of track (101 DALMATAS / 101 DALMATIANS, EAN 7321927346914).  Most often writes "Español de America" o "Latinoamericano" (LOS ARISTOGATOS / THE ARISTOCATS, EAN 8422397400089). But for helping a more international and avoid "national sensibility issues", SPANISH and SPANISH LAS as a different way of distinguish two different tracks in same disc may help. Afterwards if a Mexican edition of a mexican film it's introduced as SPANISH instead of SPANISH LAS it doesn't the matter as it's obvious that a local film will be in local language, and it's spanish anyway. But the problem is when international DVD / BR editions share in same disc the two tracks dubbed from original english film as Walt Disney or US TV series used to do. It's very common and may surprise to other countries of our very own way the enjoy films in Spain with two real spanish tracks!!!!