Re: [native-lang] Proposal for Native Language Confederation (NLC) Project - NY

Louis

Maaori translation

Are the Atheist prepared for the theist to have a try at translation?

But, on a less serious note, no need to be astonished, Louis, you will  
find Google and before them Microsoft have worked up Maori  
Translations (see goole language options). I have worked a very small  
part on advising and promoting resectively on both projects. One took  
6 years and the other two years.

The work on logistics has been talked out around open office and I  
have called a few meetings and set some agendas for these meetings.

I see the dialects of the same language always being the sticking  
point and would suggest 5 Maori translation for tribal groups (Nga  
Puhi, Waikato, Tuhoe, Kaitahu and one other)

Also the international nomencluture for MI may need to be changed to  
represent the five! (extremely big task that the world Oo society my  
have to uncork for the Maori before the wine can pour and the Haka  
(dance with actions and song) can begin.

An international welcome to the project is needed from a united  
community of Oo member nations.

This stage work would trigger governmental interest as well as NGO  
interest in why it was not done.

Brighter minds than I, more capable minds than I and more competent  
minds than I can then come on board to have it completed.

New Zealand was first to give women the vote, have a citizen first to  
clime Mt Everest, first to split the Atom with Rutherford and so a  
first lurks in this Oo somewhere.

RY
NZ

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On 10/06/2010, at 5:59 AM, Louis Suarez-Potts <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> On 2010-05-19, at 06:13 , Roderick Young wrote:
>
>> Zanga
>>
>> A student in Waikato University, New Zealand (Aotearoa -Maaori  
>> indigenous language of Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud) New  
>> Zealand, Southern Hemisphere) back in early 2000's was from Malawi,  
>> Africa. We ate together and talked long into the night many  
>> occasions. Zanga can you please say a prayer, in your language for  
>> the oneness of humanity and also the unity we need here in New  
>> Zealand to translate open office into Maaori, thank you.
>
> If we hold our faith in prayer for the oneness of humanity then we  
> atheists are out of luck :-)
>
> But, on a more serious note, I'm astonished that there is not yet a  
> Maaori NLC. There ought to be. I learned, once, long ago, much of  
> Maaori and a few other versions of Polynesian, as my grandmother was  
> travelling from island to island in the vast Pacific and I was  
> fascinated by the incredible migrations made by the ancient  
> Polynesians.  What a beautiful, musical language. How grand and  
> great it would be to have OOo in it!
>
> Louis
>
>
>>
>> Roddy Young
>> Aotearoa (New Zealand)
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 19/05/2010, at 10:02 PM, Zanga Chimombo <[email protected]>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> My name is Zanga Chimombo. I am IT professional living and working  
>>> in
>>> Blantyre, Malawi. I would like to propose my native language  
>>> ChiNyanja
>>> also known as ChiChewa, Chewa or Nyanja (ISO 639-1: ny, ISO 639-2:
>>> nya) to be considered as an NLC project of the Open Office suite of
>>> software. ChiNyanja is spoken in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia.
>>>
>>> I have some experience of involvement in an open source software
>>> project (http://bawo.sourceforge.net) and I am aware of prior work  
>>> on
>>> a ChiNyanja spell checker by Kevin Scannell and Soyapi Mumba
>>> (myspell-ny version 0.01) released in January 2005. As a start I  
>>> would
>>> like to update this work in order to make a ChiNyanja spell checker
>>> dictionary available as an Open Office 3.0 Extension Dictionary.
>>>
>>> I would then be in a position to expand the dictionary as well as
>>> create a thesaurus and maybe even grammar checker. I am hoping  
>>> that by
>>> this stage, significant interest can have been generated for the
>>> project within Malawi and surrounding countries.
>>>
>>> I look forward to your favourable consideration.
>>>
>>> Kind regards, Zanga.
>>>
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