Comments on: Using facebook lists for multicultural holiday wishes and practising languages in status updates

By: Edgar

Edgar — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:06:19 +0000

Thanks for the Facebook grouping tip – that will help alot.

By: Edgar

Edgar — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:05:44 +0000

Thanks for the Facebook grouping tip. That will help.

By: John P.

John P. — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:16:59 +0000

Whilst informative I think this is a definite case of overkill… Lass uns nicht päpstlicher als der Papst sein…

By: Dale

Dale — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:30:19 +0000

Tara,

Facebook doesn't provide a mechanism for typing in an alphabet that isn't already supported by your computer. As Benny commented, he has written about how to configure your computer for other languages. There are some tools you can use if you need to occasionally type letters in a language that your computer isn't configured for. They get very tedious if you need to type more than just a little. And of course, you actually need to know the language you intend to write in. If you need to learn another language, Benny's website is one of the first I would recommend for how to reach that goal faster. Some of the recommendations he has made are things I discovered the hard way. The rest make sense to me too.

By: Benny the Irish polyglot

Benny the Irish polyglot — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:01:57 +0000

This article explains how to toggle between more than one language instead of writing in more than one in the single update.
I've written a separate article about how to change the language of your whole computer.

By: Tara

Tara — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:55:12 +0000

I've seen some freinds write status updates that have more than one language in them. How do you toggle between the languages to write one staus update multilingually? i haven't even figured out how to write it in one other languages, nevermind toggling between more than one. Can someone help? do I have to change the language on my whole computer, or can I just do it in Facebook?

By: Benny the Irish polyglot

Benny the Irish polyglot — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:29:46 +0000

Actually, if you have polyglot friends, just put that friend in several categories and they'll see all language updates that they would understand OR, make a polyglot list and write in several languages in that list, where other polyglots can comment and chat with eachother etc. Problem solved!

By: Dale

Dale — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:17:44 +0000

That solution solves about 90% of the problem. The other 10% is the part that is really obvious to polyglots with polyglot friends. Fortunately, it isn't as much of a problem. I have several friends who will happily converse in two or more languages. Some of them switch the language of their status updates based on the local language where they are at the time.

The only way I can see for Facebook to help us with that is if messages could be tagged with the language or languages used in the text. That seems like it's going farther than necessary.

By: wccrawford

wccrawford — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:42:14 +0000

Nice. I haven't looked into FB's features enough I guess because I never even considered that such a thing might be possible. Thanks for the info!