Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-counter-styles-3] Why was list-style: upper-greek removed?

@LeaVerou,

You don't have to thank me for the compliments as they have been 
subject to
reevaluation. I have not committed more posts to this thread due to a
disapproval of the overall culture that I confronted from the first 
post
especially the tutoring on civil tones etc. So no skimming on facts or
disrespect shown to those who traced back into the issue to find 
details.

To be frank as I read your post I feel a set of related guilts 
beginning
with the one for not initially spotting the wrong implementation, then
 one
for not having used the style for more that five top level numbered 
blocks
and finally for being somehow connected if not being the same person 
with
the one who designed the initial version of the greek letter 
numbering.

Two rhetoric questions I personally won't look for an answer (as my
conspiracy spirit revealed to me instantly):

1. "who did craft the original version you had to discontinue, the one
 that
you never corrected (excuse me, the one you did correct via custom 
counter
styles and expecting the whole browser community to adopt, any 
moment)?"

2. "Does the group hold any shred of responsibility for the dodgy
version?". No answers expected as the facts are all laid out for 
anyone to
judge.


On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Lea Verou <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> Hi @aviennas <https://github.com/aviennas>,
>
> I am the Greek speaker that said this to the WG. Thank you for your
> compliments. :D
>
> I think you skimmed through the replies you were given a bit too 
quickly,
> which is a bit disrespectful for the people who spent time replying 
to you.
> At the risk of this reply being read diagonally as well, I will try 
to
> explain.
>
> Greek counter styles in CSS today are actually *incorrect*, which I
> imagine is an even worse problem for anyone having "Greek ancient 
and
> modern literature as their field of study". I'm surprised you did 
not focus
> your complaint on that. Which Greek ever uses α, β, γ, δ, ε, ζ, η, 
θ, ι, κ,
> λ, μ, ..., ω, αα, αβ, αγ etc for numbering?! I have never seen this 
in
> Greece, anywhere. If you're a native speaker, and especially someone
 with
> "Greek ancient and modern literature as their field of study", you 
know
> very well that the correct order is α, β, γ, δ, ε, *στ*, ζ, η θ, ...
 and
> that there's no such thing as αα, αβ, αγ. What CSS currently does, 
is
> basically a direct translation of how letter numbering works in 
English,
> which in Greek is wrong.
>
> That's what Tab was explaining to you. Nobody claimed that the Greek
> language is not being used today, so you're arguing against a 
strawman here.
>
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