Now don't get me wrong, I love the Slovene language. I work on it everyday, practicing with whomever is nearby, listening to others speak, asking questions, doing vocabulary drills. I reckon I learn about a few dozen new words everyday. I am doing what I can to make this relationship work.
But I have to face the facts, and admit that I am not ready to move to the next level. I tried to be agreeable when I downloaded Firefox and found that it automatically set itself to Slovene. Great!, I thought, another handy way to learn the language. No problem. So I've left it that way, but then more and more programs decided to follow suit and I soon found myself staring at a small indecipherable error window, racing to my slovar to find out what had happened. It was just too much. So yesterday when I downloaded GIMP and saw that it had been "auto Slovenicized" I searched around trying to figure out how to un-poslovaniti it. Luckily the forums had an answer..I had to delete everything but English. And so I did, and it was solved.
But never fear! While Slovene may be deleted from that program it will never delete from my heart. We're just taking it one step at a time, so I'll give it the keys to my apartment.... but it can't move in yet.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Auto Slovene
at 7:36 AM
Labels: first impressions, language
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Well, if you're using Windows (yikes!) you should have a folder called GTK+ Runtime Environment, where there is a "Select Language" app.
On linux, just change your locale to en_US.utf8, either by
export LANG=en_US.utf8; export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
or using the distro's system settings.
Thanks for the advice, Disablez! I'm gonna leave everything that is already in Slovene alone (since I've got it mostly figured out) but I will heed the advice for future installs.
I'm a Slovene and all my programs are set to English language. When I have to use a Slovene version (I make my computer guy do that for me, I admit), I'm completely lost and I know I'm not the only one ... so don't feel bad :=)
Hey Anja,
This makes me feel a lot better!
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