WotD Update

[muckefuck]

I know haven't posted any vocabulary lists for days, but I've still been compiling them. You know me: I had to take a straightforward project and find ways to add complication. For one thing, there's the issue of variation. Even ignoring colloquial variants, several of the languages in the list are plurilocal, meaning there is not one single standard/prestige variety but several. I'd love to be comprehensive, but this is a practical list, so I need to keep it brief. With that in mind, here's my list of preferences:

1. German--Standarddeutsch of Germany; common southern alternatives preferred over northern and non-standard/dialect terms dealt with in footnotes.
2. Dutch--Algemeen Nederlands; northern variants over southern/Belgian (sorry, areia).
3. Catalan--IEC standard, with a focus on the speech of Barcelona.
4. Spanish--Castilian Spanish, with common Latin American (esp. Mexican) variants noted.
5. French--Hexagonal French, with note on Cajun variants wherever possible.
6. Irish--Caighdeán Oifigiúil, with a preference for Munster variants.
7. Welsh--Academi standard, with a preference for southern variants.
8. Korean--Preference for Seoul colloquialisms.
9. Chinese--Standard Chinese in traditional characters with a preference for Taiwanese variants.

I'm also not blind to the pitfalls of treating items in a word list as exact equivalents or of focussing on "words" at the expense of other important aspects of language. It was my intention to include example sentences with each entry, but ensuring that these are all correct is rather time-consuming, so I'm contemplating dealing with grammatical constructions as "words" for the purpose of this experiment. Stay tuned.