-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It may have more to do with the fact that there may not be enough people to carry out the work. Having spent my work placement in Wales (albeit South Wales) I have to say the majority of Welsh people that I met, could not (or were not willing to learn) Welsh. This is just my observation.
It also has to be said that you have to be pragmatic when managing a project, so perhaps a lack of demand has meant that support has been dropped. Of course the beauty of FOSS is that anyone who wishes to revive it is free to do so. So the ball is now in the lap of the native Welsh and Irish speakers who wish to see it included again. George Gareth Bowker wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:44 +0000, Jon Grant wrote: > > >> >> Without wanting to cause a stir with any cultural imperialism, perhaps >> >> there are more important things than Welsh and Irish i18n.. >> >> >> >> Welsh was almost dead before the revival in the last 10 years as I >> >> understand it. Many of those people taught in Welsh will be stuck with >> >> difficulty speaking English when they want to consider wider range of >> >> job options in their life. So it could be a blessing for them to have >> >> English as their first language, and a European or Asian language as >> >> second ;) > > > > Um, are you being serious? > > > > If so, I'll just point out that you're quite wrong in your assertions. > > I'll happily fill in the details off-list, but the statements about > > Welsh being almost dead or the part about having difficulty speaking > > English is so absurd I don't even know where to begin! > > > > Cheers, > > > > Gareth > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Fsfe-uk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk Gareth Bowker wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:44 +0000, Jon Grant wrote: > >> Without wanting to cause a stir with any cultural imperialism, perhaps >> there are more important things than Welsh and Irish i18n.. >> >> Welsh was almost dead before the revival in the last 10 years as I >> understand it. Many of those people taught in Welsh will be stuck with >> difficulty speaking English when they want to consider wider range of >> job options in their life. So it could be a blessing for them to have >> English as their first language, and a European or Asian language as >> second ;) > > Um, are you being serious? > > If so, I'll just point out that you're quite wrong in your assertions. > I'll happily fill in the details off-list, but the statements about > Welsh being almost dead or the part about having difficulty speaking > English is so absurd I don't even know where to begin! > > Cheers, > > Gareth > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Fsfe-uk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRVxuqiXShSyEyRFwAQLOWgP6A3hz3WD2weTCnC2Y5QdG9cZPPHWGXkgP bUc8dOHIIp3FZ3WEq+9wlaKIdlNtJGBmV6o7IcHv8SMZOYGFElID0KQTvSOZWoxg ZZvg/RpARe9857VubOTLmvf6bGHVeemfY45MLRdb4df1dFxCrtWlE1z3rcbE7A60 5p8zCMxjMxI= =NlRN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
