The Wampus Cat

2009/05/14

Filed under: culture, internet, politics, south-africa — The Wampus Cat @ 00:49

To follow up a bit, Google Translate can’t guess that basic Zulu phrases are Zulu, nor can it guess that Xhosa phrases are Xhosa (it’s been saying they are Portuguese or German, but of course, not translating them). Firefox isn’t offered in any South African languages besides English and Afrikaans. Facebook (as seen above) isn’t either. Now, I’m not complaining, just thinking out loud. I don’t speak Afrikaans, no less isiZulu or isiXhosa, so I’m in no place to, for example, translate Firefox…

[Images from Wikipedia and Facebook]

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