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Ubiquity i18n: questions to ask

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

I recently have traveled a fair deal and have met many people excited about the Ubiquity project and its localization efforts. “I want to help,” say the people, but many are unsure where to start.

As a linguist, studying a language involves looking at instances of that language as data. To this end, we as Ubiquity internationalizers need to get at some examples of target utterances. Here’s an example survey which could be a good starting point for native speakers who want to contribute information on their language, based on Blair’s list of common Ubiquity verbs.

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