{"id":355,"date":"2008-10-03T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2008-10-03T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T09:05:15","slug":"facebook-v-slovenscini-facebook-speaks-slovenian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/facebook-v-slovenscini-facebook-speaks-slovenian\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook v sloven\u00c5\u00a1\u00c4\u008dini! (Facebook speaks Slovenian)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The big news of the afternoon is that now official, in the land on the sunny side of alps, we don’t poke<\/a><\/strong> anymore, but instead I now “dregnem<\/em>‘ someone. This is part of the now unrolled efforts of Facebook<\/a> to bring it into language that’s easier to understand to teenagers.<\/p>\n

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The effort was completely community driven, with local Facebookers providing translations and then voting on how good they are in order to ensure best ones win. I imagine there was a huge flame around *poke*<\/strong>. Everything was done from within the Facebook platform<\/a>, using Translations application<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At this point there’s usually a huge backlash of Slovenian geeks who claim that everything IT related should stay in English. Given the fact that one of the biggest Slovenian sites is Podnapisi.net<\/a> (Subtitles), there definitely is a demand for localized content, even though there is a vocal minority that seems to think otherwise.<\/p>\n

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Image by sitmonkeysupreme via Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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