[EN] Brian King
#Director of the WorldWide Language Institute, who initiated NetGlos (The
Multilingual Glossary of Internet Terminology)
One of the WorldWide Language Institute's projects is NetGlos (The Multilingual
Glossary of Internet Terminology), which is currently being compiled from 1995
as a voluntary, collaborative project by a number of translators and other
professionals. Versions for the following languages are being prepared: Chinese,
Croatian, English, Dutch/Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Maori,
Norwegian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
*Interview of September 15, 1998
= How did using the Internet change the life of your organization?
Our main service is providing language instruction via the Web. Our company is
in the unique position of having come into existence because of the Internet!
= How do you see the growth of a multilingual Web?
Although English is still the most important language used on the Web, and the
Internet in general, I believe that multilingualism is an inevitable part of the
future direction of cyberspace.
Here are some of the important developments that I see as making a multilingual
Web become a reality: