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CFP: Law, Language & the Multilingual State (Bloemfontein, S.A.)

Don Osborn — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:23:02 GMT

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF LINGUISTIC LAW ACADÉMIE INTERNATIONALE DE DROIT LINGUISTIQUE Bloemfontein (South Africa) and Montréal (Canada) Law, Language and the

Language & ICT: Limerick & Barcelona (conferences)

Don Osborn — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:34:26 GMT

Two international conferences later this month relating to localization and multilingual uses of information and communication technology (ICT) bear

ICLPA (Zimbabwe: Establish national language policy)

Donald Z. Osborn — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:00:58 GMT

The Intergovernmental Conference on Language Policy in Africa (ICLPA) referred to by Dr. Mudenge is referenced at http://www.bisharat.net/Documents/ under

FW: Zimbabwe: Establish national language policy

Donald Z. Osborn — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:11:53 GMT

FYI from Zimbabwe News Online via lgpolicy-list... Establish national language policy: Mudenge http://zimbabwenewsonline.com/top_news/319.html 17 August, 2009

Re: [A12n-Collab] Facebook Swahili version launched

mpcbulletin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:10:57 GMT

Don, I have had respect for you since the Kilinux days until today. How can you possibly claim that people are laughing at translations that have undergone

Test - A12n-policy back online

Don Osborn — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:40:09 GMT

A12n-policy is online again - using a temporary set-up. This will allow sharing of items relating to language, ICT and localization policy in Africa. In the

[A12n-Collab] FW: Arab Techies Code Sprint Releases

Don Osborn — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:47:22 GMT

FYI (fwd from the ANLoc-general list anloc-general@... )... ... Hi all, Arab Techies is a collective that I co-founded last year. I think

Re: [A12n-Collab] Google in African languages

Denis Gikunda — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:13:33 GMT

Hello Don, Simons, all All of the Interface translations you mention were carried out through Google in Your Language over

Re: [A12n-Collab] Facebook Swahili version launched

Martin Benjamin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:09:48 GMT

It may be a bit early to declare Facebook Swahili a finished product, but it is actually pretty good as far as it goes. For the record, the Twitter comment

Re: [A12n-Collab] Facebook Swahili version launched

David Joffe — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:56:14 GMT

... FWIW, this 'whiteafrican' Erik Hersman comment at least could probably be taken with a pinch of salt, as he seems to be a white American (living in the US)

Re: [A12n-Collab] Facebook Swahili version launched

F Wolff — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:59:45 GMT

... In my experience, people are always surprised by translated user interfaces the first time they see it. The "newness" of a translated user interface is

Re: [A12n-Collab] Facebook Swahili version launched

David Joffe — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:32:10 GMT

... What do you mean they're laughing at the translations, is the translation quality bad? - David ... http://tshwanedje.com/ TshwaneDJe Human Language

Re: [A12n-Collab] Facebook Swahili version launched

David Joffe — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:30:51 GMT

... Aha, found it there, as an unfinished translation with '21,169 Untranslated Phrases' ... wow, talk about jumping the gun - some marketing people really

Re: [A12n-Collab] Windows Vista Language Interface Packs for Nigeria

Andrew Cunningham — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:17:56 GMT

I'd agree with Tunde, a pan-African keyboard is useful for a casual user, best for a casual user across a range of language, but less desirable for someone who

Re: [A12n-Collab] Windows Vista Language Interface Packs for Nigeria

Manuela Noske — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:42:10 GMT

Hi Don, Yes, the Nigerian languages install only on an English version of Vista. Thanks for suggesting to add French as a base language for Hausa. I'll