At the Dakar forum it's fast, f urious … and crowded | Claire Pr ovos
"Renato Corsetti" <[email protected]>
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Iu rimarkis je Mireille Grosjean! Amike Renato <http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/feb/10/world-social-forum-2011-dakar-fast-crowded> Click here: At the Dakar forum it's fast, furious … and crowded | Claire Provost | Global development | guardian.co.uk "...As I stop to decipher a mass of multilingual posters – French, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English and others – a short, silver-haired woman squeezes her way through the crowd. Her black T-shirt emblazoned with an image of the Earth and the words: "Esperanto es mia lingua" (Esperanto is my language). The multitude of tongues gives the forum a dynamic sense of globalism – along with the steep communication challenges. A team of interpreters and translators has descended on the forum, gathering small groups of unilinguals under their wings, doing their best to make sense of the multilingual chatter..." --