Multilingual blog
Discovered another cool plugin this morning, which uses Google to translate this blog into a variety of languages. So if you hail from France, Portugal, Spain, China, Korea, Italy and others you now may be able to read it in your native tongue. Very cool. Just click the flags in the top right corner.
The only initial qualm I had about it, which is a problem I have with a lot of websites and software (and which relates to a discussion I was having with Rodney a few days back) is that the default flag representing the English language was the USA flag. Fortunately I was able to change it to the UK one but it still bugged me a bit. It’s the same with lots of software programs – when you install them and there is a list of languages, the one for English will most often say “English (US).” Another example of Americocentrism. The English language comes from England so therefore should be represented by an English flag, not an American one. It would be equally as stupid to have an Australian or Canadian flag representing English. You don’t see the French language represented by the flag of Algieria, or Chad or some other ex-French colony that still speaks the language, so why should English be represented by an ex-colony like the USA rather than the flag of the country where the language originated? Anyway thanks for letting me get that off my chest – enjoy the translation. It works for the links to so you can check out Rodney’s or ob1’s blogs or others in the language of your choice – I found Mark’s About page inPortugeuse to be quite amusing for some reason.
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