From b98df6fbe2a5c48013cfca81a95a5af41e202d07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:06:32 -0500 Subject: Actually post subtitles, I think --- ...anguage-and-emacs--grant-shangreaux-autogen.vtt | 859 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 859 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--31-lakota-language-and-emacs--grant-shangreaux-autogen.vtt (limited to '2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--31-lakota-language-and-emacs--grant-shangreaux-autogen.vtt') diff --git a/2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--31-lakota-language-and-emacs--grant-shangreaux-autogen.vtt b/2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--31-lakota-language-and-emacs--grant-shangreaux-autogen.vtt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b3feac2d --- /dev/null +++ b/2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--31-lakota-language-and-emacs--grant-shangreaux-autogen.vtt @@ -0,0 +1,859 @@ +WEBVTT + +00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:11.519 +hello relatives + +00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:15.040 +grant shangri is what they call me + +00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:18.960 +and all of you I gladly take your hand + +00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:22.160 +and shake it um + +00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:26.240 +greetings everyone + +00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:28.560 +today I'm going to talk about lakota + +00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:30.480 +language and Emacs and how + +00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:33.680 +free software and Emacs empowered me to + +00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:36.000 +write on the computer in the language of + +00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:39.520 +my ancestors + +00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:42.640 +um start off the look with the story of + +00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:45.760 +lakotiappi the lakota language + +00:00:45.760 --> 00:00:48.800 +the lakota dakota dialect area + +00:00:48.800 --> 00:00:52.160 +for those of you who you don't know + +00:00:52.160 --> 00:00:55.600 +the lakota dakota people are also known + +00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:56.840 +as the sioux + +00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:59.760 +and the tribes cover an + +00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:03.120 +area of roughly 10 us states and parts + +00:01:03.120 --> 00:01:05.199 +of canada and so this language is + +00:01:05.199 --> 00:01:08.479 +spoken over a wide range of of + +00:01:08.479 --> 00:01:11.520 +area + +00:01:11.520 --> 00:01:14.400 +however the us government policy + +00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:16.640 +directly tried to silence this language + +00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:18.640 +my father was taken to a boarding school + +00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:20.960 +and was punished for speaking + +00:01:20.960 --> 00:01:23.280 +his native language and so he didn't + +00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:25.119 +teach it to his children + +00:01:25.119 --> 00:01:28.880 +several generations of lakota and dakota + +00:01:28.880 --> 00:01:29.600 +people + +00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:31.600 +and other tribes all over the country + +00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:32.640 +lost + +00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:34.560 +lost their first language their native + +00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.320 +language so today only around 2000 + +00:01:38.320 --> 00:01:41.040 +first first language native speakers are + +00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:43.119 +speaking lakota + +00:01:43.119 --> 00:01:44.960 +however there's language recovery + +00:01:44.960 --> 00:01:47.600 +projects that are empowering + +00:01:47.600 --> 00:01:49.759 +second language learners like myself to + +00:01:49.759 --> 00:01:51.720 +teach it to the new generation of + +00:01:51.720 --> 00:01:54.479 +children um + +00:01:54.479 --> 00:01:57.119 +which brings me to my story um I grew up + +00:01:57.119 --> 00:01:58.000 +without knowing + +00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:00.880 +my heritage um I didn't know who my + +00:02:00.880 --> 00:02:01.520 +father was + +00:02:01.520 --> 00:02:04.719 +both my parents were white um + +00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:07.119 +I discovered my biological family in + +00:02:07.119 --> 00:02:08.720 +around 2015 + +00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:12.160 +was kind of a shock to me up until that + +00:02:12.160 --> 00:02:13.840 +point probably the only time I'd heard + +00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:15.520 +the lakota language was in + +00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:18.720 +the movie dances with wolves possibly + +00:02:18.720 --> 00:02:20.720 +some other times + +00:02:20.720 --> 00:02:24.160 +around nebraska I'd heard it um but + +00:02:24.160 --> 00:02:27.200 +even myself growing up you know pretty + +00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:28.319 +close to + +00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:30.560 +to lakota people and other native + +00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:32.239 +american people + +00:02:32.239 --> 00:02:34.560 +american indian people I kind of thought + +00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:36.640 +it was just dead I thought the language + +00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:39.760 +was not alive anymore um + +00:02:39.760 --> 00:02:42.000 +but in 2016 my daughter began her + +00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:43.920 +journey into this world and I + +00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:46.720 +I was doing a lot of searching to find + +00:02:46.720 --> 00:02:48.239 +out like what could I do + +00:02:48.239 --> 00:02:50.560 +you know not knowing my family not + +00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:51.920 +knowing my culture + +00:02:51.920 --> 00:02:54.080 +what could I do to try to bring that + +00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:55.280 +into our life + +00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:58.640 +um and so I found out about these + +00:02:58.640 --> 00:03:00.720 +lakota classes that were happening I + +00:03:00.720 --> 00:03:02.720 +went up to standing rock + +00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:04.560 +in north dakota and attended the lakota + +00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:06.640 +summer institute for three weeks + +00:03:06.640 --> 00:03:08.480 +and began my journey to learn the + +00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:09.680 +language so I can + +00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:13.120 +try to pass it on so + +00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:16.560 +this brings us to Emacs + +00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:19.200 +I could talk a lot more about my story + +00:03:19.200 --> 00:03:20.959 +I'm sure there's a lot to say + +00:03:20.959 --> 00:03:24.640 +but we're here to talk about Emacs um + +00:03:24.640 --> 00:03:26.319 +I was already a free software user at + +00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:29.040 +the time and at the lakota language + +00:03:29.040 --> 00:03:31.440 +uh institute they they were they're + +00:03:31.440 --> 00:03:33.280 +giving us software there's a dictionary + +00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:34.879 +you could get on android + +00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:37.360 +um there was a keyboard for android that + +00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:38.560 +you could type with + +00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:41.760 +they had keyboard input methods for mac + +00:03:41.760 --> 00:03:44.959 +and windows but I'm a linux user free + +00:03:44.959 --> 00:03:46.720 +software user + +00:03:46.720 --> 00:03:49.280 +so I didn't have access to those things + +00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:49.760 +as + +00:03:49.760 --> 00:03:53.120 +as easily as I could and I do a lot of + +00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:55.280 +my thinking and note taking in Emacs and + +00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:57.280 +in org mode + +00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:01.200 +and so being able to to write this + +00:04:01.200 --> 00:04:04.640 +to to um to write things down to type + +00:04:04.640 --> 00:04:07.680 +on my own computer uh was was pretty + +00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:08.720 +important to me + +00:04:08.720 --> 00:04:11.360 +and I wasn't much of an emax hacker yet + +00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:12.799 +at the time I had + +00:04:12.799 --> 00:04:15.519 +barely done anything mostly just you + +00:04:15.519 --> 00:04:16.720 +know hacked on my + +00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:20.479 +config file but this was a real + +00:04:20.479 --> 00:04:23.600 +chance for me to experience + +00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.280 +the the benefits of free software first + +00:04:27.280 --> 00:04:30.400 +hand and not just to benefit myself but + +00:04:30.400 --> 00:04:34.080 +to potentially benefit + +00:04:34.080 --> 00:04:36.080 +everyone anyone interested in learning + +00:04:36.080 --> 00:04:39.120 +this language + +00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:42.880 +so Emacs and + +00:04:42.880 --> 00:04:44.880 +that free software philosophy really + +00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:47.520 +empowered me so I began digging in + +00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:49.840 +um I looked I began reading the the + +00:04:49.840 --> 00:04:51.520 +manual more closely + +00:04:51.520 --> 00:04:53.680 +as an american I'm I'm sad to say + +00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:55.440 +there's not a lot of + +00:04:55.440 --> 00:04:58.479 +other languages spoken or written where + +00:04:58.479 --> 00:05:00.160 +I'm from + +00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:02.240 +so it's not common that I that I have to + +00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:04.720 +think about this with computers + +00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:07.600 +I know international people you know + +00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:09.120 +have had to come up with + +00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:11.280 +with interesting ways to to enter their + +00:05:11.280 --> 00:05:12.160 +text + +00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:14.800 +and Emacs is probably a pioneer in that + +00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:16.320 +I I'd like to know more about the + +00:05:16.320 --> 00:05:17.520 +history of this but + +00:05:17.520 --> 00:05:19.840 +there's a whole section in the manual on + +00:05:19.840 --> 00:05:22.160 +international Emacs + +00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:23.840 +and I began reading this and I was + +00:05:23.840 --> 00:05:25.440 +talking about + +00:05:25.440 --> 00:05:28.000 +different input methods and and how many + +00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:29.759 +different languages were supported and + +00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:31.680 +how you could enter the text and how it + +00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:33.680 +supports the different characters and so + +00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:34.560 +on + +00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:36.639 +um I even noticed a few languages + +00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:38.880 +support several input methods + +00:05:38.880 --> 00:05:41.840 +that became important for me later on as + +00:05:41.840 --> 00:05:43.440 +I was working on this + +00:05:43.440 --> 00:05:45.280 +many many languages are already + +00:05:45.280 --> 00:05:46.720 +supported so + +00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:48.479 +those of you who haven't looked into + +00:05:48.479 --> 00:05:50.080 +this yet if you press + +00:05:50.080 --> 00:05:52.639 +control backslash it will open up a + +00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:53.680 +selection menu + +00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:57.039 +for you to to select um + +00:05:57.039 --> 00:05:59.120 +your input method and you can there's + +00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:01.440 +207 listed here + +00:06:01.440 --> 00:06:03.120 +that's including the two that I've + +00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:04.639 +contributed + +00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:09.199 +um so 205 on on a vanilla Emacs + +00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:11.120 +so that's a lot of languages supported + +00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:13.840 +by emac Emacs but there's so many more + +00:06:13.840 --> 00:06:17.440 +that could be um and since Emacs is free + +00:06:17.440 --> 00:06:19.280 +software and it is what it is I knew + +00:06:19.280 --> 00:06:20.000 +that defining + +00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.639 +a new input method was surely possible + +00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:23.039 +um + +00:06:23.039 --> 00:06:25.440 +unfortunately the the manual didn't + +00:06:25.440 --> 00:06:27.120 +describe it directly or at least I + +00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:28.800 +didn't pick it up so + +00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:30.960 +um you know the new emax hacker that I + +00:06:30.960 --> 00:06:32.319 +was I + +00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:34.880 +I timidly dove down into the source code + +00:06:34.880 --> 00:06:37.360 +and discovered the quail package + +00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:40.479 +um so back in the day apparently there + +00:06:40.479 --> 00:06:40.960 +was + +00:06:40.960 --> 00:06:44.560 +mule which is like the + +00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:47.360 +multi I don't I don't know it stood for + +00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:48.000 +something about + +00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:50.160 +language environments and and it has + +00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:51.759 +evolved + +00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:54.960 +and at some point um some japanese + +00:06:54.960 --> 00:06:58.000 +uh coders created an input method called + +00:06:58.000 --> 00:06:59.039 +tamago + +00:06:59.039 --> 00:07:03.599 +which means egg in japanese and uh + +00:07:03.599 --> 00:07:06.720 +tamago evolved into quail and they + +00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:08.800 +in the comments you can see they talk + +00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:10.720 +about how the quail egg is eaten in + +00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:12.800 +japan it's a smaller thing and + +00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:15.280 +the quail mode is like a nicer version + +00:07:15.280 --> 00:07:16.960 +of tamago I guess and + +00:07:16.960 --> 00:07:19.039 +there's a pun saying they hoped it would + +00:07:19.039 --> 00:07:22.639 +egg people on to create more input modes + +00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:26.240 +and quail is quite nice I looked into it + +00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:28.479 +and there's basically two things you use + +00:07:28.479 --> 00:07:30.720 +quail defined package and quail define + +00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:32.240 +rules + +00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:36.080 +so quail defined package + +00:07:36.080 --> 00:07:38.960 +you can see here is a function it's + +00:07:38.960 --> 00:07:41.759 +probably a macro that takes a name + +00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:43.599 +a language a title and some optional + +00:07:43.599 --> 00:07:44.879 +stuff which + +00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:48.319 +I didn't really have to deal with + +00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:50.479 +define name is a new quail package for + +00:07:50.479 --> 00:07:52.400 +input language title is a string to be + +00:07:52.400 --> 00:07:52.879 +split + +00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:54.400 +at the mode line to indicate this + +00:07:54.400 --> 00:07:57.120 +package + +00:07:57.120 --> 00:08:00.879 +so I began trying to do lakota input now + +00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:03.039 +this is a whole thing on its own because + +00:08:03.039 --> 00:08:04.240 +the lakota language + +00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:07.680 +was never written um + +00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:10.800 +pre-contact and post contact + +00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:12.879 +like there's several attempts at writing + +00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:14.800 +it and different orthographies + +00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:16.960 +and there's drama around all of this + +00:08:16.960 --> 00:08:19.360 +stuff + +00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:21.120 +it's pretty common to have drama going + +00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.160 +on in any american indian stuff + +00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:26.560 +going on so as I was doing this I + +00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:28.479 +started with the suggested lakota + +00:08:28.479 --> 00:08:29.680 +orthography which + +00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:32.880 +is actually called by its authors the + +00:08:32.880 --> 00:08:35.680 +the standard lakota orthography but its + +00:08:35.680 --> 00:08:36.959 +authors are + +00:08:36.959 --> 00:08:40.880 +um are european + +00:08:40.880 --> 00:08:43.039 +um the main author is a man named jan + +00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:45.040 +ulrich and I appreciate all his work and + +00:08:45.040 --> 00:08:46.160 +I'm grateful for + +00:08:46.160 --> 00:08:49.360 +the materials he's made available but um + +00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:51.040 +it's a little bit problematic because + +00:08:51.040 --> 00:08:54.160 +it's not an orthography created by + +00:08:54.160 --> 00:08:56.720 +our people by lakota people so there's + +00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:57.920 +another one called the white hat + +00:08:57.920 --> 00:09:00.080 +orthography which is created by albert + +00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:01.839 +whitehat who's a teacher + +00:09:01.839 --> 00:09:04.480 +um from the chichanguk tribe so I + +00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:05.360 +created two + +00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:08.640 +and thankfully emax lets me do that so + +00:09:08.640 --> 00:09:10.720 +it's pretty simple quail defined package + +00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:11.680 +I just + +00:09:11.680 --> 00:09:13.279 +say the package I want and then all + +00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:15.360 +these nils and t's for options I don't + +00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:16.480 +actually know what they mean but it + +00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:18.240 +works + +00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:20.240 +I could look it up and then quail define + +00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:22.640 +rules just defines mappings from ascii + +00:09:22.640 --> 00:09:23.600 +keys to + +00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:26.640 +the the text you want to put in so + +00:09:26.640 --> 00:09:29.680 +for this one there's a nasal n and then + +00:09:29.680 --> 00:09:33.600 +a dot and a macron like a wedge shape + +00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:36.640 +for marking up the consonants + +00:09:36.640 --> 00:09:39.839 +so that one's pretty easy and then the + +00:09:39.839 --> 00:09:41.760 +suggested lakota orthography is a little + +00:09:41.760 --> 00:09:43.040 +bit more difficult + +00:09:43.040 --> 00:09:45.600 +but still pretty easy I just map a + +00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:46.800 +sequence of keys + +00:09:46.800 --> 00:09:49.760 +a followed by the apostrophe makes the + +00:09:49.760 --> 00:09:51.760 +accented vowels so all of those + +00:09:51.760 --> 00:09:53.519 +and then again we have the hot checks + +00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:55.839 +for the guttural sounds of the language + +00:09:55.839 --> 00:09:58.399 +and the nasal end so that's it basically + +00:09:58.399 --> 00:09:59.120 +these two + +00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:02.480 +definitions allow me to type + +00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:06.560 +lakota language in Emacs um + +00:10:06.560 --> 00:10:09.279 +and it's great it works great publishing + +00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:09.920 +it + +00:10:09.920 --> 00:10:11.760 +is another problematic thing I wanted to + +00:10:11.760 --> 00:10:13.839 +use free software to do that + +00:10:13.839 --> 00:10:16.079 +so the first thing I did was I I posted + +00:10:16.079 --> 00:10:17.600 +on sourcehut + +00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:19.440 +which is great it's a good alternative + +00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:20.959 +for a git forge + +00:10:20.959 --> 00:10:22.880 +and I got it published on melba so the + +00:10:22.880 --> 00:10:24.000 +lakota input + +00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:25.760 +package is available if you'd like to + +00:10:25.760 --> 00:10:27.760 +try it out + +00:10:27.760 --> 00:10:29.839 +and bandali one of our hosts for the + +00:10:29.839 --> 00:10:31.680 +conference is helping me now + +00:10:31.680 --> 00:10:33.200 +through the process of committing the + +00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.279 +code to Emacs + +00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:37.120 +because I would like to do that I would + +00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:39.279 +like it to be available to everyone + +00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:41.680 +through Emacs itself so that anyone who + +00:10:41.680 --> 00:10:43.279 +wants to use it just has to download + +00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:43.920 +Emacs + +00:10:43.920 --> 00:10:46.240 +and there you go you can type lakota + +00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:47.120 +language + +00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:50.160 +so uh pila maya thank you + +00:10:50.160 --> 00:10:53.279 +all for listening and + +00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:55.920 +I hope to see you around in our Emacs + +00:10:55.920 --> 00:10:58.320 +community + +00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:04.720 +uh day -- cgit v1.2.3