Go! offers airline website in Hawaiian

[Cunliffe D J (AT)]

Hello All,

Thanks to James for this link. Unfortunately the Star Bulletin really
overstates the case: "Mesa Air Group's interisland carrier go! plans to
unveil the world's first airline Web site using only the Hawaiian
language."

In fact the Hawaiian language provision is very limited - basically to
the homepage and parts of the booking procedure. Most of the Hawaiian
links link to English content and it is very easy to accidentally switch
into the English language site.

The comments posted to the article are well worth a read as they provide
a nice microcosm of typical views.

My very intermittent and fairly dull blog datblogu
(http://datblogu.weblog.glam.ac.uk/) has recently featured a couple of
posts and a lot of comments about similar issues with Welsh language
provision in case anyone is interested.

Cheers,

Daniel.


-----Original Message-----
From: Indigenous Languages and Technology
[mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of James Crippen
Sent: 15 Chwefror 2008 18:42
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Go! offers airline website in Hawaiian

Mesa Air Group's interisland carrier go! has released an airline
website entirely in the Hawaiian language.

http://starbulletin.com/2008/02/15/business/story01.html