#plurilingualism

[rustycottoncandy]

Funny language-related confession here: I often forget that "de res" and "adéu" are Catalan. I don't speak Catalan at home or anywhere outside of my school really, but I've gotten used to utilizing "de res" (Catalan for "you're welcome") and "adéu" (Catalan for "goodbye") in Spanish conversations. Hell, I've straight up replaced my "adiós" for "adéu" because it sounds more friendly according to my brain. It's when I hear a non-Catalan Spanish-speaking person respond to an "adéu" of mine with an "adiós" or to a "gracias" with a "de nada" that I remember that those expressions aren't actually Spanish, but Catalan. I also tend to use "T'estimo" (Catalan for "I love you") instead of "Te quiero" (Spanish for "I love you") when I'm talking to my family but I'm aware that that is a Catalan expression.

Bonus Catalonia fun fact: Some Catalan people use "Merci" (French for "Thank you") instead of "Gracias" (Spanish for "Thank you") or "Gràcies" (Catalan for "Thank You"). I don't, but enter a store here and you'll hear a lot of "Merci"s. I'm unsure whether this does or does not happen in other parts of Spain, though.

[drjacquescoulardeau]

LE PLURILINGUISME, UN ENJEU MAJEUR POUR L’INTERNET ET L’IA

LE PLURILINGUISME, UN ENJEU MAJEUR POUR L’INTERNET ET L’I.A.

FROM META-TECHNOLOGICAL A.I.

La 7ème édition des Assises européennes du plurilinguisme aura lieu à Paris, les 20, 21 et 22 mai 2026, après plus de vingt ans de la première édition (Paris, octobre 2005).

Dans L’économie du 20e siècle, l’économiste, historien et philosophe français François Perroux déclarait que « nous ne possédons pas une théorie d’ensemble, cohérente et utilisable, de ce que je propose de nommer l’« effet de domination » » (Perroux, 1961 : 27).

Pourquoi parler des rapports de domination alors qu’il s’agit de traiter de la circulation des savoirs, des imaginaires et des compétences en rapport avec la diversité des langues ? Quand il y a circulation, déplacement, transfert, il y a des différences de niveau, ce qui signifie que les savoirs, les imaginaires, les compétences n’émergent pas partout en même temps et de la même façon, ce qui engendre différences, déséquilibres et conflits potentiels.

Ainsi, plutôt que de considérer la domination comme un mal, et de se lancer dans une quête à l’égalité sans issue, mieux vaut la considérer comme un fait qui conditionne toute vie personnelle et sociale et qui trouve sa régulation dans la vie sociale. Dès lors, la circulation des savoirs, des imaginaires et des compétences devient intelligible.

Une autre dimension fondamentale pour comprendre la circulation des savoirs, des imaginaires et des compétences, est la dimension linguistique. Elle est généralement négligée en raison du préjugé monolingue.

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Jacques Coulardeau uploaded a paper

7,488 languages are endangered in the world by AI because they cannot have a big enough LLM. This digital colonial imperialism is controlled by 6 to 12 languages. Frank Herbert must resurrect to start the Butlerian Jihad again.

LE PLURILINGUISME, UN ENJEU MAJEUR POUR L’INTERNET ET L’IA

By Md.Merajul Islam & Jacques Coulardeau

4 Pages

2026, Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

Phylogeny/phylogenetics,  *  Global South,  *  Linguistic Diversity (Languages And Linguistics),  *  LLM,  *  A.I. Artificial Intelligence

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Plurilingualism

Before taking my SLS 250 course, I had never even heard of the term "plurilingualism", and I do not think that many people have. When my professor first said it, I kind of giggled a bit, not because I thought it was funny but more so, I was surprised? I kind of thought he was joking and made up a funny word to try to intrigue us. Turns out, this word encompass a lot of what I had been feelings in the past and currently, whilst learning French. Like I have said previously, I was introduced to languages at a young age; these two languages were Ilocano, from my grandfather who was born and raised in the Philippines, and Unangam Tunuu, the native language of the town I grew up in on the Aleutian Chain of Alaska. I knew a few words here and there in each but never enough for me to speak even relatively fluently, so I thought it didn't matter, and was not significant that I knew even some. However, the word pluriligualism gives propose to the small amounts of knowledge one might have in a second, third, or fourth language. It rightfully represents the fact that you can still have large takeaways and cultural growth even when only knowing bits and pieces of a language.

[drjacquescoulardeau]

Plurilingualism in A Globalized world (3 videos at the end, 95 minutes) https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/plurilingualism-in-a-globalized-world-3-videos-at-the-end-95-minutes-c9a5c4a85fb6

I won't be able to go. Too bad. It is not a video conference. Too sad. The world of tomorrow is being born and yet delivery is difficult. The world is in the smartphones we use all the time. In the Virtual Reality we enjoy from time to time and will enjoy all the time soon. In the Artificial Intelligence that will make us so much smarter and more brilliant like stars in the Milky Way. Sirius will be our dog star, and this dog does not need to be taken out twice a day. The African Dogons will be our neighbors and partners in the search for the most secret ambitions Homo Sapiens has always carried in his bag in the sunshine or in the rain when it was never raining but pouring cats and dogs, rhinos and hippos. We all have the right to be educated in our first language (or first languages) and in our first culture (or first cultures) in the only decent human civilized world that is multilingual and pluricultural or the reverse if you prefer.

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2022

[drjacquescoulardeau]

COVID vs. REAL FLU – CADIX C’EST FINI https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/covid-vs-real-flu-cadix-cest-fini-6236b7664b2b

 I just published COVID vs. REAL FLU — CADIX C’EST FINI. I won't be able to go. Surgery on October 20, endemic pandemy, traveling is unsafe, the real flu is coming, and our monkey-ascendants are poxing us. Stay put! That will not be enough. The world has to get up to this new situation. COVID-19 revealed that social contact and collaboration should not be hampered by distance in space and even in time. We need to enable all those who want to take part in the post-COVID globalization to be able to do so even if they are down under or on the moon. Let's deploy our Holographic Digital Avatars all over the real world. This post-COVID globalized world is difficult to deliver and yet it's only a technical problem that does not even need a new invention. Mélenchon did it. So why not us? Is it really because some' elite in this world does not want us to speak? I don't believe it. We are afraid of speaking and we limit our opportunities to do so. thus we will not say something that would be classified as stupid, BUT STUPID IS THE NEW SMART. https://link.medium.com/YOKEA6i7Mtb

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com 2022

[drjacquescoulardeau]

AI, Unavoidable & Unforgivable Tool https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/ai-unavoidable-unforgivable-tool-154299e06efc  

Éditions La Dondaine; 1st edition (November 4, 2020)

Kindle Edition 277 pages

Text-to-Speech : Enabled

Enhanced typesetting : Enabled

Language: : English

ASIN : B08MV77QX6

Artificial Intelligence is invading our daily life at an unstoppable speed. But can we ride it like a horse or a train to go where we want to go? The main and crucial questions all deal with accountability. Who is responsible if a machine is the cause of an accident? The user of the machine has been trained and he used User's Guides to deal with the machine. Was the training and were the User's guides properly performed or clearly written in a language the user could read and understand? Translating machines multiply the difficulties because any text has semantic backdoors and translating what is not on the surface or the façade but is behind, hidden, but fundamental for the meaning invested by the author, is nearly impossible, even in a user's guide. Semantic backdoors are the entrances used by hackers to get into software or a network. But most texts to be translated are only signifying and significant because of the innuendo behind the backdoors.

[drjacquescoulardeau]

Traduction Automatique & Intelligence Artificielle https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/traduction-automatique-intelligence-artificielle-2eff65572c93  

Christian Tremblay (OEP) La traduction automatique dans le contexte des institutions européennes L’évolution au cours des vingt dernières années qui s’est précipitée avec l’extension de l’Europe à 10 nouveaux membres issus de l’ancienne zone d’influence soviétique, s’est caractérisée par le développement de l’anglais comme langue de travail au détriment de toutes les autres langues et en tout premier lieu du français. Alors que très peu de fonctionnaires européens sont des natifs anglophones, cette évolution aboutit au paradoxe de transformer la quasi-totalité des fonctionnaires européens en traducteurs vers l’anglais de premier niveau. Ainsi, un rédacteur francophone va produire des documents en anglais qui seront ensuite traduits en français par les services de traduction. Un rédacteur germanophone, allemand ou autrichien produira des textes en anglais qui seront ensuite traduits en allemand. Cette situation, que certains justifient par la nécessité de disposer d’une langue commune, au-delà de la situation ubuesque évoquée, n’est évidemment pas dépourvue d’arrière-pensées géostratégiques qui consistent à maintenir l’Europe dans une situation de « tête de pont de la puissance américaine » (Zbigniew Brzezinski) sur le continent eurasiatique. La question posée est de savoir si l’arrivée de la traduction automatique à un niveau de qualité très élevé est de nature à modifier les équilibres et à permettre le développement de pratiques plus conformes à aux valeurs fondamentales de diversité linguistique et culturelle, inscrite dans les traités, à l’intérieur d’une identité culturelle européenne que personne ne conteste sérieusement, malgré une conscience encore bien incertaine de cette identité.

Publication Date: 2020

Publication Name: Observatoire Européen du Plurilinguisme

Artificial Intelligence,  *  Translation Studies,  *  Multilingualism,  *  Plurilingualism,  *  Deep Learning

[drjacquescoulardeau]

Europe and Pluri- or Multilingualism

https://medium.com/@JacquesCoulardeau/europe-and-pluri-or-multilingualism-44c838d2b865

Europe has negated its national mosaic for too long. It produced frustration and rebellion, and it is the fuel that burns in the engine of nationalistic populism. France is one of the worst cases in Europe since its constitution has not yet recognized the various regional languages in France, not to speak of a real policy to welcome immigrating populations and make them feel at ease. In France, we are dealing with non-French languages as if they were some stigmata of some monstrous essence. We know the result. But you will say in Great Britain the various communities are recognized and even institutionalized and yet it produced Brexit-, and the immigrating Indian or Pakistani or West Indian populations are first in their ranks. Yes, because they were trained into loving themselves and hating all those who were from other origins, particularly Europeans at first and then immigrants from Africa and the Muslim world.  I remember being treated, me as an English speaking European and my wife as an English speaking American like plain s**t by some Southern Asians in a Southern Asian restaurant across from King's Cross Station in London in the late 1970s. Nothing new under any British sun.

Publication Date: 2019

Publication Name: Medium.com