encatala.yahoo.com

New regional version of Yahoo!

[misciab]

Yahoo! is launching a new regional version, in Catalan language.
In Spanish:
[el-mundo.es...]

One more step in SE glocalisation!

Ciao
Miriam

[Mike_Mackin]

Catalan is the own language in a large territory whose main part is in Spain , but also in Andorra, France and Italy (Sardinia island).

[heini]

>Catalan is the own language in a large territory

some numbers to back up:

6,472,828 mother tongue speakers, plus 5,000,000 second or third language speakers in Spain. Population total all countries 6,565,000 or more. Including second language users: 10,000,000.

from:http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=CLN [ethnologue.com]

Miriam, I take it this site will be a subdomain to Yahoo.es?

[misciab]

Hi Heini, the present Under Construction home page has the domain
[es.docs.yahoo.com...]

Yes, I think this Yahoo will be a .es, because Catalonia has not a national domain. This will be the first Yahoo project in a language which has no official State.

Ciao
Miriam

[2_much]

Thanks for letting us know about this Miriam, and welcome to WmW!

[william_dw]

hmm,
mabye i'll start a new language,
and call it serpish, it contains no unnessesary grammar, spelling, spaces, and all new paragraphs are started with <a href="http://mysite.com"> and ended with </a>.
for instance,

"my name is bob, and i sell fine italian leather shoes!"

will look like(once altavista translation accepts my new language):

<a href="http://mysite.com">
name bob sell fine italian leather shoes
</a>

or, in Serpish2
(well formed sentences are all in the style of a sales pitch):

<a href="http://mysite.com">
my name is bob and have i got a deal for you! thanks to a wonderful italian deal with some shoe salesmen who work with the finest leather, yes that's right - italian fine leather shoes direct from the manufacturer! - i have all the way from italy just for you these fine italian leather shoes - get your fine italian leather shoes right here!
</a>

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[XarXo]

IT'S OPEN!!

CHECK IT AT: [CT.YAHOO.COM...]

;)