http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2004/11/24/stop-speaking-english/ Adventures in Web Globalization Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:16:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2004/11/24/stop-speaking-english/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Louise Brunette Sat, 04 Dec 2004 04:09:03 +0000 http://globalbydesign.com/2004/11/24/stop-speaking-english/#comment-3 At the Premier doesn't have the least idea how websites are not localized for French-speaking Quebeckers. They are just mirrors of what is offered to Anglophones. The impression is some localizers think that French Quebeckers are Anglophones who happen to speak a language looking like French. Charest has no idea either how we came to this predicament. We have a tradition of centuries of bad translation. What kind of French is he fostering ? What I hear around too often is English spoken with French words. But nobody wants to hear about the quality of French. Nor the quality of websites. This is for the old-fashioned. But this site is what I was looking for for months and will be a reference for my present research on the representation of Québec cultures on localized (or so called) websites. At the Premier doesn’t have the least idea how websites are not localized for French-speaking Quebeckers. They are just mirrors of what is offered to Anglophones. The impression is some localizers think that French Quebeckers are Anglophones who happen to speak a language looking like French. Charest has no idea either how we came to this predicament. We have a tradition of centuries of bad translation. What kind of French is he fostering ? What I hear around too often is English spoken with French words. But nobody wants to hear about the quality of French. Nor the quality of websites. This is for the old-fashioned.
But this site is what I was looking for for months and will be a reference for my present research on the representation of Québec cultures on localized (or so called) websites.

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