Rob,
this is an intriguing story — could you give us some clues?
Are you running Apertium to produce, from standard English, subtitles in
a specific variant of English unique to Lancashire
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_dialect)? Is there a standard
way of writing it? Where are the sources?
Could you give us more background as to why this exhibit (running on a
reclaimed computer, cool!) is being shown at such a socially challenged
part of the city? Was this part of some initiative to visualize the
troubles faced by the residents there?
The Manchester part of the story is quite opaque unless you give us some
hints.
But the part I understood was cool!
Cheers
Mikel
El 06/03/17 a les 17:10, robert ha escrit:
Hello,
You will need to be generous to see much in this effort. Perhaps the
social background? We are working from a housing estate where 4 in 5
occupants are on welfare, and where the central complex is being
flattened by bulldozers. As I type.
First two pictures show the English -> English-Lancashire pair exhibit,
with the home website for the pair running on a reclaimed Thinkpad (look
to the right. The picture frames are loaded with XML). Third picture
shows a screen displaying a recent film of 'Emma', subtitled in
English-Lancashire, via Apertium and my Python subtitle-conversion
script (but most of the day I ran old John Wayne movies).
Mostly the reaction from visitors was "What's THAT?" Followed by a
massive wide smile when they figured out what was going on. Several
people, despite zero publicity and our cramped position in the building,
sat down to watch. I learned today, too, that we've built bridges to
Manchester, who had not expected anything like Virtual Reality or The
Lancashire Converter from us outback types. And the local councillors
were stunned at the scale and success of the show.
So this is very small-scale, but Apertium has brought smiles where they
are not often seen. And may even, in a small way, bring some good, too.
Regards,
Rob
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