Tuesday, March 5, 2013

postheadericon Online Polish Loses Some Of Its Polish

If true to its name, the World Wide Web should reflect the world cultural and linguistic diversity. Currently, however, many sites and tools are still optimized for English and its character set, although this is slowly changing as in other countries with different languages ??and writing systems are online in greater numbers.

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This can have unintended spillover effects on how people use their native language online, as this article on the fate of the Polish written language says:
Computers and
phone keypads require users to hit additional keys for Polish alphabet. To save time, the Poles often fail grades, and sometimes need to guess the meaning of the message received

course, all languages ??have ambiguity -. As the title of this post - but in the case mentioned above, the use of technology seems to be introducing a little more, because the special characters with diacritics additional avoided and replaced by versions simple change meaning of a word in many ways. In the same article, the Polish linguist expressed concern about what it might lead to:




"Today, the Polish language is threatened by the tendency to avoid the letters" said Bralczyk. "Less we use diacritics in text messages, it is more likely that completely disappears. Would mean a loss of language and our lives. Be sorry. "

probably need not worry. Technologies will soon solve this problem of his own creation: touchscreens allow all types of extended keyboards, including those with additional characters and predictive technology can auto-correction when the user enters text. In time, speech recognition will be good enough to provide a completely hands-free for desktop and mobile will be able to apply all the diacritics necessary that you dictated. Indeed, far from leading to the disappearance of diacritics, there is no reason for PDAs writing should not help people to use more widely and efficiently than ever.
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