David
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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
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André in Zuid-Afrika
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How about a topic of the month?
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Porthos
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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:
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Elaine
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| 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.
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Porthos
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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.
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greg in noord-frankrijk
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| Elaine wrote: | | 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. |
Agree 100 %.
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Deborah
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Estoy de acuerdo con Elaine y greg.
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David
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Notice:
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?
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Benjamin [inactive]
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I am using Safari 1.3 on Mac OS X Panther and I cannot see the Language of the Month feature.
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Pauline
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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:
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fab
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I tend to think that it is hard to attract Asian speakers, especially those languages who use ideograms. I don't how to do ?
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David
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| Benjamin wrote: | | 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.
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David
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Here's what it looks like in Mac 2.0.3:
Not sure why it doesn't work in 1.3 :(
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André in Zuid-Afrika
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| Elaine wrote: | | 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. |
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.
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Loic
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| fab wrote: | | 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.
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Julian
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Re: Language of the day(now with a poll) | David wrote: | | With Andre's approval I went ahead and added a "Lang of the Month" to the forum index. |
I think you should retitle it "Language of the Months" since it's been Spanish for several months now and running. 
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André in Zuid-Afrika
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Re: Language of the day(now with a poll) | Julian wrote: | | David wrote: | | With Andre's approval I went ahead and added a "Lang of the Month" to the forum index. |
I think you should retitle it "Language of the Months" since it's been Spanish for several months now and running. |
Hm yes. I've been thinking the same thing. I've contacted David...
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