Tahitian hymns

[Samuel Bradshaw]

The Tahitian hymns have been typed in in both Tahitian and French (both languages are side-by-side in the Tahitian hymnbook). We might not have to worry too much about it yet, but how will we display both languages together in the app? For example, Hymn #1's title is entered as "Le jour paraît, chassant la nuit / Te Hiti Mai Nei te Mahana." That's how it is in the hymnbook, but it makes a really long title for the iPhone screen. Then, each verse and chorus is typed first in Tahitian, then in French.

Even though there's also a French hymnbook, we can't just get rid of the French for two reasons, 1) people in Tahiti presumably use both at the same time, and the corresponding hymns have the same hymn number, and 2) there are (I think) 8 hymns that are in the Tahitian hymnbook, with both Tahitian and French words, that aren't in the French hymnbook.

We could somehow put them in as different "instances" of the same hymn in the same hymnbook, like we're doing for Men’s Choir versions, etc.; or we could figure out some way to display both at the same time in an easy-to-read format...

[Mitch Freed]

Instead of side-by-side what about putting them in sequence on each line. So there would be 2 verse #1 listed, one French and one Tahitian -- 2 for each verse.

- Mitch

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[Justin Wagner]

I like Mitch's idea, it would be a good way to include both versions of they hymn.

That being said, another thing to do would be to make two items for each hymn one in Tahitian and one in French.  Then we could number then something like 45-T and 45-F for the Tahitian and French version respectively.

Not sure which one would be better, I guess it depends on how quickly native Tahitians switch between languages of the song.

Justin

[Mitch Freed]

And is the Tahitian-French version the exact same as the French-French version? If not then you would need to differentiate them somehow.

- Mitch

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[Hilton Campbell]

Great suggestions. I don't have any good answers to this question.

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[Janet Perry]

Hi, HIlton: 

Can you please remove me from this project? I'm not able to be a help.

Thanks, 

Janet