Irish Government launched their 20 year strategy for the Irish language. But it's the wrong strategy, for the wrong language, at the wrong time. What a shame the strategy wasn't about creating a multilingual society in Ireland and positioned Irish within that, along with other languages.
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Ireland's Centre for Next Generation Localisation Innovation Showcase
I attended the Centre for Next Generation Localisation’s Innovation Showcase event, hosted by Microsoft in Dublin, Ireland. A very well organized and attended event, it was encouraging to see such a huge turnout of enthusiastic, engaged people from the localization and information industries mixing it up with their counterparts in academia and thought leaders in...
The World Cup Twanslator and the CNGL
For those of you interested in the World Cup (whatever that is), I draw your attention to Twanslator, an online system to allow football (that’s “soccer”, to the rest of you) fans to follow World Cup tweets on Twitter in their own language. The system is explained in today’s Irish Times: (The system) instantly translates...