Waiting for the Babel Fish: Languages and Multilingualism

Waiting for the Babel Fish Stephanie Booth

Internet: Space Cruncher ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Linguistic Borders ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Misconceptions ,[object Object],[object Object]

Geographical Abuse ,[object Object],country != language bad localisation

Countries are important, but... ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Guilty: Google Google.ch => DE Blogger in France => FR

L10n advice for Tool Builders ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Detecting User Language ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Using Browser Language Prefs We need more of this.

What are my languages? ,[object Object],Know? Speak? Read? Write? Read a book? A newspaper article? Have a conversation? Write a letter? Write a book? Give a talk?

Multilingual Humans ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Monolingual Silos ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Blogging Tools: WordPress ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Presence Tools: Twitter ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

L10n Insufficient ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

We're Already Doing It! ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],one web page != one language one person/user != one language

Quoting Foreign Language Sources

The Multilingual Challenge ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Going Multilingual a strategic and technical problem ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Remember. Most people are multilingual.

Bonne route ! ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Web2Open, 06.11.2007 Berlin, DE

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