Re: [Indic-computing-users] FEATURE: It's no tower of Babel, it's South Africa

[Ravikant <rav...@sa...>]

Dear Fred,

Thanks for posting a useful article. Translators in Hindi also had got stuck 
on 'Password' untile we heard 'Simsim' from an Urdu list. Simsim comes from 
'Khulja Simsim' of the famous story 'Alibaba and 40 thieves.

cheers
Ravikant  

On Sunday 06 Feb 2005 5:41 pm, Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote:
>   http://www.tacticaltech.org/asiasource/blog
>
> It's no tower of Babel, it's South Africa
> By Frederick Noronha
>
> Countries from the South, emerging from a number of problems, can seem
> like a Tower of Babel. But when it comes to coping with diversity, Dwayne
> Bailey's story from South Africa makes the point nicely. Free/Libre and
> Open Source Software can indeed offer interesting solutions even to
> smaller languages.