Comments on: Samsung launches first Irish phone http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=954 Níl ann ach raiméis : It's nothing but nonsense Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:45:18 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: maca http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=954#comment-184204 maca Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:37:28 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=954#comment-184204 Jer ... welcome to Raiméis! Antonio ... well if it could print Euro notes I *might* reconsider my opinion but for the moment i'll stick with my nokia :) Jer … welcome to Raiméis!

Antonio … well if it could print Euro notes I *might* reconsider my opinion but for the moment i’ll stick with my nokia :)

]]> By: Antonio http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=954#comment-182387 Antonio Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:26:36 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=954#comment-182387 I wouldn't buy any item with the Samsung logo on it, even if this device could print euro notes itself :-) I wouldn’t buy any item with the Samsung logo on it, even if this device could print euro notes itself :-)

]]> By: Jer http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=954#comment-181757 Jer Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:27:44 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=954#comment-181757 Great idea. Rhys as regayd Cymru the thing is you folks have a great language movement but lack independence whereas we have 3/4 independence but lack the same vitality in our language movement. If you have a strong language movement then you can strenghtne identity and gain independence but a weakened language movement will have little impact in an independent state. Great idea.
Rhys as regayd Cymru the thing is you folks have a great language movement but lack independence whereas we have 3/4 independence but lack the same vitality in our language movement. If you have a strong language movement then you can strenghtne identity and gain independence but a weakened language movement will have little impact in an independent state.

]]> By: Rhys http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=954#comment-181729 Rhys Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:39:25 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=954#comment-181729 That's great news. Many in Wales who oopese independence or any legislation regarding language like to say "look at Ireland, their language is in a sorry state - do you want wales to be like that?". It's nonsense of course, although it does show that legislation alone will never achieve anything. What being an independent State does mewn though, is that all the big companies have a HQ in Ireland (even a European HQ in Google's case) and this gives the Irish language more of a chance of being recognised, particularly if an influential member of staff is fluent/supportive to the language. Where the manufacturer has ignored smaller languages, clever user's themsels have been hacking the <a href="http://www.iphonecatala.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">iPhone into Catalan</a> and <a href="http://eibar.org/blogak/luistxo/en/archive/2008/05/30/your-tomtom-speaks-basque" rel="nofollow">TomTom into Basque</a>. I own nither devices, so I'm not bitter at all that their not available in Welsh, oh no! That’s great news. Many in Wales who oopese independence or any legislation regarding language like to say “look at Ireland, their language is in a sorry state – do you want wales to be like that?”.
It’s nonsense of course, although it does show that legislation alone will never achieve anything.

What being an independent State does mewn though, is that all the big companies have a HQ in Ireland (even a European HQ in Google’s case) and this gives the Irish language more of a chance of being recognised, particularly if an influential member of staff is fluent/supportive to the language.

Where the manufacturer has ignored smaller languages, clever user’s themsels have been hacking the iPhone into Catalan and TomTom into Basque.

I own nither devices, so I’m not bitter at all that their not available in Welsh, oh no!

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