Thanks kindly! Are we ALL using standard PM software embedded in the
WIKI? Apologies - - I move quickly and can't find docs here. Someone?
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> Forwarding Alena's wonderful note, since Rainmaker is not subscribed
> to the mailing list.
>
> -Rob
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Alena Hairston <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:23 AM
> Subject: Please read soon -- this took quite a bit of time that I
> simply don't have and will have wasted if no one hears me/us on this:
> What about "International Pan-African Language Dictionary" ? fomerly
> Rainmaker's post; Luo Language = DhoLuo
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> Rainmaker (lovely moniker!): Yes -- I share in your important query and
> the profound work to be done. I am of Eritrean/Ethiopian and
> American(izes) Welsh/Scott and Native American Cherokee, and finally W.
> African likely Ghana. As I live in Oakland, CA -- very populous with
> Eritrean, Ethiopian, Kenyan, Somalian, Djiboutian, Tanzanian and more --
> thelanguages immediately accessible to me and to others around the larger
> metro areas in the US such as Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicacago,
> Arizona, Texas, Florida, and virtually evey state up and down the Eastern
> Seaboard, including the influx of Somali refugees in a suburb outside
> Atlanta and in Lewiston, Maine (my own birthstate -- Limestone, Loring
> AFB).
>
> Ethically -- really humanely and civilly -- I shall never refer to any
> peoples as "third world" or "developing" moniker conveniently compressing
> the ravages and continual by products of such into present day ravages that
> are still dismissed by both mainstream and progressive/ethical outlets.
>
> Language is key -- particularly the degree of depth, degree of syntax,
> punnery, figuration, etc. Given the inverse of perversion in this world --
> where that which is complex, dark, beautiful, female, South, East,
> non-Latin based, non-Western based (how could it be)?, etc. and etc.
>
> Thus, I ecstatically offer my meticulous linguistic, organizational,
> networking, collective skills and ideas to this effort as long as such
> effort will NEVER allow its ghettoization or silencing. Europe, S.America,
> Canda, Russia, ect. are continents featuring myriad languages.
>
> The technology is there/her as are we?
>
> Shall we get started?
>
> 1. Insert excel matrix or access database or somesuch to correlated ideas,
> sub ideas, areas, and personnel. Something dynamic that is connected to
> the pag IIdea is to for all interested parties to meet via web
> conferencing (email and wikipages are subsuming my life) and I am working
> on a dissertation, law school, and trying to be a wife (help!)
>
> Ok -- let me inventory what I have -- thoughts anyone!
>
> Oakland CA 94610
> 2/28/2012
>
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> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:26 AM, rain <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Good Morning to all of openoffice.apache.org and supporters. You are
> > great!!
> > Congratulations for your successful works on behalf of culture,
> knowledge,
> > improvement.
> > My name is George Odhiambo
> > I am very happy to find so many South African Languages
> > available in Open Office Dictionaries.
> > It makes me wishing I could help with plenty of effort,
> > through joining a group of people with similar interest,
> > and create a DHOLUO Dictionary
> > for the many who later could benefit
> > by downloading and running it
> > when word needs a spelling control, etc.
> >
> > I would like to receive indications on what data-base, query, form...
> > should I start using
> > to begin filling with words
> > of same meaning
> > in two different Languages (i.e.: English AND DhoLuo)
> >
> > To me it would become a long lasting process.
> > Would you do help me to make it shorter
> > by creating a group of people, with structured plans,
> > well organised,
> > that later you could offer DHOLUO dictionary
> > to users of OpenOffice, Android, Linux, Apache,
> > and many of future applications, OS, ...
> > through your superb Apache Open Office organization.
> >
> > These my today Prayer to Ancestors. Amen
> > Odhiambo
> >
> > I would had a big problem if someone would ask me to trace the areas
> where
> > Tsonga or Veda people have their homesteads, the area where their
> ancestors
> > kept their grazing fields, or the are where Tsonga and Veda languages are
> > spoken.
> > [image: Where?]
> > I am to learn many many things yet.
> >
> > In case you would like it,
> > I insert here a small drawing with the area
> > where people do talk one another in markets,
> > in homesteads, in school yards...
> > by using beautiful DhoLuo Language words.
> > [image: LuoLand]
> > Thanks for your time.
> > Have a nice day.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
