Re: [Scottish] Gaelic Spellchecker

2007-02-13 Thread William Anderson
J.R. Seago wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007 23:51, Chris Nicolson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scottish Gaelic Total speakers: 58,652 Welsh Total speakers: 700,000 From their respective wikipedia pages. So we're doing well for the relative number of speakers! That makes matters even worse!

Re: [Scottish] Gaelic Spellchecker

2007-02-13 Thread Kyle Gordon
J.R. Seago wrote: Well that was interesting, and between us we managed to increase the traffic on the list to the point where it sent out a digest on one subject. I seem to have been led along gently by the rest of you to the point where I have arrived at this:

Re: [Scottish] Gaelic Spellchecker

2007-02-13 Thread J.R. Seago¹
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 12:15, William Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand this argument.  A 1:4 Welsh:English speaking ratio surely deserves more attention than a 1:86 Scots Gaelic:English ratio? At a per-head rate, the WLB gets ~ £19, given the figures you and others

Re: [Scottish] Gaelic Spellchecker

2007-02-13 Thread Kyle Gordon
J.R. Seago¹ wrote: On Tuesday 13 February 2007 12:15, William Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand this argument. A 1:4 Welsh:English speaking ratio surely deserves more attention than a 1:86 Scots Gaelic:English ratio? At a per-head rate, the WLB gets ~ £19, given the

[Scottish] Gaelic Spellchecker

2007-02-12 Thread J.R. Seago¹
Two points to consider here, have a look here: http://tinyurl.com/3e55b2 why is the Gaelic spell checker only available to operate on Microsoft office? (If it can be made to work on Free Software please let me know before I get cross for the wrong reason). And the second point is why does

Re: [Scottish] Gaelic Spellchecker

2007-02-12 Thread Subhi S Hashwa
Monday, February 12, 2007, 8:15:51 PM, J.R. Seago¹ wrote: Two points to consider here, have a look here: http://tinyurl.com/3e55b2 why is the Gaelic spell checker only available to operate on Microsoft office? (If it can be made to work on Free Software please let me know before I get cross

Re: [Scottish] Gaelic Spellchecker

2007-02-12 Thread Subhi S Hashwa
Monday, February 12, 2007, 8:15:51 PM, J.R. Seago¹ wrote: Two points to consider here, have a look here: http://tinyurl.com/3e55b2 why is the Gaelic spell checker only available to operate on Microsoft office? (If it can be made to work on Free Software please let me know before I get cross

Re: [Scottish] Gaelic Spellchecker

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Nicolson
J.R. Seago wrote: And the second point is why does the Welsh language board get more than the Gaelic. Maybe the Welsh assembly puts greater importance on Welsh than the Scottish Executive does on Gaelic ;) If this is British/UK money, or even EU funding, that still doesn't explain why