[Foundation-l] Wikipedia songs

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 17:08:11 UTC 2008


On 30/01/2008, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2008 8:33 PM, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 30, 2008 5:51 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > It's an automated phone system, what is this "point" of which you speak?

> > I think I gave the answer on this thread already.
> > Unless the menu itself is multilingual, only English speaking people
> > can be benefited. Other people can even not select their favorite item
> > from this menu. And since they understand those messages in English,
> > they don't need other language ultimately (or can be toralent with it)
> > When a corporate makes their telephone automessages multilingual, they
> > first make their selection menu multilingual. Unless we are going to
> > this direction, I think, this is just a killing-time.

> Yes, especially because we do not have people who speak all of those
> languages answering the phones. :-(  Only English, most likely.


"For English, press 12479.
For any other language, please hold as we put you through to Aphaia."


- d.



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