Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:37 am Post subject: Language of the day(now with a poll)
With Andre's approval I went ahead and added a "Lang of the Month" to the forum index. Let me know what you think. It obviously needs work color-wise so I'd like to hear your opinions. I can also put something else up there besides a LOTM if you all want.
P.S.
Andre, I need the logo!
Regards,
DAVID
Last edited by David on Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:40 pm; edited 1 time in total
The Language of the month is a fantabulous idea!!!! Keep up the good work boys! This site is becoming more interesting by the day.
But I have one recommendation however. In order to appease both the pro-Germanic people and the pro-Latin people on this board, it's probably best that we rotate the language of the month between Germanic and Romance languages. That way no one can speak of bias on the part of the moderators like they did on that other site. :wink: _________________ Operation Northwoods - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Favorite languages = English/Spanish
Followed by Italian/French/Dutch
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject:
Porthos wrote:
But I have one recommendation however. In order to appease both the pro-Germanic people and the pro-Latin people on this board, it's probably best that we rotate the language of the month between Germanic and Romance languages. That way no one can speak of bias on the part of the moderators like they did on that other site. :wink:
Do you really think people are going to be so petty? :shock:
Anyway, my suggestion would be to focus attention on languages that don't get much coverage either here or on antimoon, like the languages of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, etc., so that we can perhaps bring in a more eclectic mix of new members.
What's this about attracting new members, and advertising all of the time? Are we politicians, or the Catholic Church or something? lol.
But, to be honest, I don't really care about those langauges. I like European languages, like W. Germanic and Romance. I could care less about the Slavic ones and Greek, and even less about the non-Indo European ones. Although, I am interested in Nahuatl. _________________ Operation Northwoods - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Favorite languages = English/Spanish
Followed by Italian/French/Dutch
Anyway, my suggestion would be to focus attention on languages that don't get much coverage either here or on antimoon, like the languages of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, etc., so that we can perhaps bring in a more eclectic mix of new members.
If you are having any browser display issues with the LOTM, please report them here. Maybe we should put up a poll regarding the langusges/topic for this thing?
I agree also, that it would be very nice to include languages from *all* the continents. :)
a suggestion can be, that you will go alphabetic, so for exemple afrikaans --> zulu and everyone of the languages you wish in between.Or, it can be a surprise and you choose at random.
It isn't very succesful, unfortunately this spanish one : after I've read you put it as the language, I have visited the spanish threads and wrote soemthing, but nobody haven't put other messages at all.perhaps, this is because the most of visitors can't speak spanish ? Then, there can be a discussion in another language about it ?
It's a wonderful and fun idea so good luck :color:
I am using Safari 1.3 on Mac OS X Panther and I cannot see the Language of the Month feature.
Benjamin,
I don't have a Mac so was unable to test it in Mac. I did however, view a screenshot of it in Safari 2.03, and it looks fine. Maybe update your browser?
Also, make sure that under your profile the board theme is set as myff_langcafe22.
Works fine in Internet Explorer 6.0, Opera 9 >, Firefox 1.5, and Netscape.
But I have one recommendation however. In order to appease both the pro-Germanic people and the pro-Latin people on this board, it's probably best that we rotate the language of the month between Germanic and Romance languages. That way no one can speak of bias on the part of the moderators like they did on that other site. :wink:
Do you really think people are going to be so petty? :shock:
Anyway, my suggestion would be to focus attention on languages that don't get much coverage either here or on antimoon, like the languages of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, etc., so that we can perhaps bring in a more eclectic mix of new members.
Well, as the only native speaker of an African language here, I agree! :gg2: I would love to see more like me here! :lool:
Perhaps people should suggest a "language of the month" with appropriate links where we could read more about that language, and the links could be listed. _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
I tend to think that it is hard to attract Asian speakers, especially those languages who use ideograms. I don't how to do ?
For me, I personally use a software that converts the official romanised spelling of the word in Mandarin to the ideogram which I want. It is a very slow and labourious method and I understand that there are faster ways of doing it. Fortunately, I have so far not have the need to write anything in Chinese via the computer. In fact, writing the sporadic Chinese characters on langcafe represents my only attempt in writing Chinese since leaving school.
We used to have quite a few Chinese speakers here, of which 3 were from France and ethnic Frenchmen and women, that is to say that they weren't immigrants or children of immigrants. Unfortunately, I don't know where they are now.
There's also Wulefu, a Swedish, whose prowress at Chinese is amazing. Again, I am unaware of his whereabouts. _________________ Hillary Clinton is an acquired taste which I have clearly yet to acquire.
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