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Oh, for fuck's sake. Alexa not speaking Welsh is hardly a "horror story." Alexa doesn't speak your language? Don't buy it. It's not "[telling] you which languag
by Zanni 7y ago
Oh, for fuck's sake. Alexa not speaking Welsh is hardly a "horror story." Alexa doesn't speak your language? Don't buy it. It's not "[telling] you which language your family can speak at home," it's offering a service to the fattest part of the market first.
The revival of Welsh (and Welsh Wikipedia) is a wonderful thing, but the framing of the article is awful.
For what it's worth, I live in Hawaii, where the native language and culture (and government) were also brutally suppressed. Currently there are less than 10,000 native speakers of the Hawaiian language. There's been an uptick with the recent creation of Hawaiian-language immersion schools, though. You know what Wikipedia doesn't have? A Hawaiian version, even though it's named for a Hawaiian (wiki) word.
- bawolff 7y agoWikipedia does have that https://haw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka_papa_kinohi https://haw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka_papa_kinohi
- Zanni 7y agoWow, thank you, I had no idea. It doesn't appear in the language dropdown list, so I assumed it didn't exist.
- GuB-42 7y agoAnd Google translate properly detects and translates the language too. Well despite the first sentence "He puke documents and Wikipedia", the translation seems consistent.
- Zanni 7y agoInteresting. The first sentence seems to translate correctly for me: "Wikipedia is an independent research journal."
- _nalply 7y agoPlease don't belittle minority languages or societies. While your observation might be suitable, the language is not. People who define themselves as a member of a minority group tend to be sensitive. Their group might have experienced gruesome oppression. They tend to be hurt quickly. So you need to be careful in expressing your opinion, especially if you view yourself as the member of one of the majority groups.
- Zanni 7y agoI explicitly did not belittle Welsh society or the Welsh language. If you care to take exception to my language as simply inappropriate, I'll concede and apologize. If you insist on taking it as an insult to minority groups (your perception, not my intention), well ... I won't do anything. Including apologize. My condemnation isn't aimed at the Welsh or minority groups but specifically at the author of the article, Stephen Harrison, whose ancestry I'm wholly unaware of.