[MINISTRY OF CULTURE] Prüms Päçen in Ladintsch REISSUED

[Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN]

Estimats és estimadăs cüncitaxhiens és oðreux Ladintschen!

The Ministry of Culture is proud to unveil the revised edition of Prüms Päçen in Ladintsch (First Steps in the Talossan Language). Originally authored by myself back when I had much more time, the revisions by Ladintsch Naziunál Cresti Sierviciül add much more vital vocabulary that all Talossans can reasonably expect to master, and use, in our daily life.

The Ladintsch Naziunál also wishes to alert all patriotic Talossans and other Ladintschen to the release of a second Memrise course in el glheþ naziunál, provisionally scheduled for next week. He adds:

I think you could safely predict the release of either a Memrise course or a new Prüms Päçen installment on a monthly basis for the foreseeable future. The 1B Memrise course could go public in September, then Prüms Päçen 2 in October, then Memrise courses for Prüms Päçen 2 in November and December.

Enxhoiaretz, perf!

Attachments:

prumspacen-revised.pdf (135.16 KB)

[Sir Alexandreu Davinescu]

Great news! I wonder if you could send me or post the previous version of Prums Pacen? I'm eager to report on the changes.

[Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN]

This was the last version, also revised by Cresti in 2014.

Attachments:

prumspacen2014.pdf (176.68 KB)

[Sir Alexandreu Davinescu]

Wow, it's really been expanded a lot! And he's also going to be doing another MemRise course or another of these on a monthly basis?! As his editor, I am outraged, but as a citizen, lover of our language and our culture, and a friend, I am impressed and grateful. And kudos to the Government for your efforts, too!

[Sir C. M. Siervicül]

Prüms Päçen was originally a one-page handout. The updated version is expanded to two pages (which can be printed front and back to make a single double-sided sheet). But the most significant change is the number 1 at the top: Prüms Päçen is being expanded into a series of similar handouts, each providing a nutshell overview of an aspect of the language. The other installments will cover verb conjugation, pronouns and prepositions, noun and adjective inflection, etc.

The current Memrise course covers page 1 of Prüms Päçen 1. The next one will cover page 2 (which is why I described the second course as "1B"). After that, we'll alternate between producing new installments of Prüms Päçen and Memrise courses that cover the last installment.

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial]

Talossan.com is still down for me; is there another way to get the keyboard layout?

[Sir C. M. Siervicül]

Aug 23, 2015 2:29:16 GMT -6 Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial said:

Talossan.com is still down for me; is there another way to get the keyboard layout?

Hmm. Talossan.com isn't working for me either at the moment. I'll check into that.

For now, the page listed on the document just has links to the Witt thread for the Talossan keyboard layouts and external pages on how to type special characters on the Windows US English keyboard, Macintosh keyboard, iOS, and Android. On most of my computers I use the US International English layout, which makes it pretty easy to type almost all of the characters used in Talossan, and one of the links explains how to switch to and use that keyboard. When I'm back on my real computer I'll create a post in the glhetg forum with the same links.

The Talossan-specific keyboard layouts are a little out of date. I know people have had problems with the Mac one, and I'm not sure whether the Windows one still works either. Hooligan is supposedly working on an updated version, so when he has that done I'll update the keyboard page on Talossan.com. I've also been looking into what it'd take to create keyboard layouts for a couple of Linux distros, but that's not a high priority right now.

[Françal Ian Lux]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!