[GNOME-my]Temuramah dengan Alan Cox

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rujuk http://www.itwales.com/cgi/showsite/showpage.cgi?998973

Temuramah dengan Alan Cox, berkenaan MBAnya kegiatan membelajar bahasa 
welsh untuk membantu isterinya menterjemah GNOME

_Welsh_ _language_ _computing_

Nevertheless, Cox is keeping his hand in; he's in touch with colleagues 
at Red Hat, and occasionally does some technical work for the project 
translating the KDE and Gnome desktop environments into Welsh. It's 
being undertaken by KGyfieithu, a project his wife Telsa Gwynn is 
heavily involved in.

Cox's involvement is fairly limited - as an intermediate Welsh learner, 
his main task is to supply the Welsh language speakers with a steady 
stream of tea. He is also, he admits, the token right-hander.

A graduate of the University of Wales Swansea, Cox is a lifetime member 
of the Swansea University Computer Society (SUCS), and has used his time 
on campus to effect a rollout of a Welsh language desktop for the SUCS 
machines over the Christmas break.

"We're one up on the University for once!" he says with not a little glee.

Universities are just one of the places where Welsh language computing 
is valuable, he says. Often, people react with surprise at the mention 
of computers running in Welsh, simply because they never thought of it 
as a possibility.

But it's a movement gaining increasing support; the Welsh Assembly 
Government is committed to supporting a bilingual society, and for 
non-native Welsh speakers, switching to a Welsh desktop environment is 
one of the quickest ways to learn. Cox himself runs a Welsh PC for that 
very reason.

He comments: "My computer speaks much better Welsh than I do, and 
occasionally I dive for the dictionary to find out where a menu item has 
gone, but it's a learning thing."

Introducing Welsh language software could also address elements of the 
digital divide. Cox says: "People like Rhoslyn Prys at Canolfan Bedwyr 
very much see it as computing and the Internet are the future. So from 
their point of view, if there's not Welsh language computing, then in 
the future there will not be a Welsh language. They see it that black 
and white."

As to his own progress with Welsh, Cox says: "I can hold my own in a 
conversation providing it's a simple one and providing the Welsh speaker 
is aware I'm a learner. I'm by no means fluent - if you've been learning 
a language for a year, you can struggle through bits of newspaper, you 
could probably read most of the news as long as you have a dictionary 
handy, but the spoken stuff I find much more challenging; I can't listen 
to S4C and understand it - I pick bits out, and some of the rugby 
commentary I can follow, but that's it."

http://www.itwales.com/cgi/showsite/showpage.cgi?998973


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