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Welsh government to write to Duolingo after updates to course 'paused' (news.sky.com)
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Wales's minister for education and the Welsh language said he will write to the company to see how the government might be able to support the course's continued development.

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[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Instead of depending on a for profit / corpo for maintaining something like a whole language maybe that should be left to a coöp? Or at least something open source / Creative Commons so that people actually are authorized to contribute?

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there an open source language learning platform? I'm not very invested in the FLOSS community but I didn't think there was anything.

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know either, I just assume that since it's 2023 and there's corpos, at least someone, somewhere, is thanklessly working on a FOSS language learning platform.

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does corpos refer to corporations?

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it's like, the same way "pharmaceutics" get shiv'd into "pharma" (or "big pharma") "corporations" get shiv'd into "corpo".

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It must be a regional thing. Personally I've never heard pharma by itself only as big pharma, shiv is an improvised knife a prisoner might make, and I've never heard corpo before. English is a huge language with a lot of regional differences. When I was young I would say wicked to mean very. If something was really fucked up I'd say it was wicked fucked up or wicked fucked.