diff --git a/locale/en/blog/project-history.md b/locale/en/blog/project-history.md index 735be3dbf..1c06cb614 100644 --- a/locale/en/blog/project-history.md +++ b/locale/en/blog/project-history.md @@ -35,18 +35,18 @@ into different languages, mainly Polish. He was gathering examples from literatu Around the same time [@Sybil](/@Sybil) was coming up with a solution to a similar, yet separate problem – how to extend the person-describing nouns into a system that also includes the grammatical neuter. They wanted to describe their nonbinary partner in a way that doesn't impose a binary gender on them -– but in Polish they had no other option than to expand the dictionaries in the name of love! -They created [a funpage on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/neutratywy) where they shared their proposals. +– but in Polish they had no other option than to… expand the dictionaries in the name of love! +They created [a fanpage on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/neutratywy) where they shared their proposals. And the three of us have joined our forces to create one bigger project: [zaimki.pl](https://zaimki.pl) – a website that [started very humbly](https://web.archive.org/web/20200725174439/https://zaimki.pl/), basically as a Polish version of [pronoun.is](https://pronoun.is/), to be extended with [a text corpus](https://zaimki.pl/korpus) and [a dictionary of nouns](https://zaimki.pl/neutratywy). -I [announced it on Twitter](https://twitter.com/AvrisIT/status/1286400337465802752) on June 23rd, 2020 +I [announced it on Twitter](https://twitter.com/AvrisIT/status/1286400337465802752) on June 23rd, 2020 and was absolutely astounded by the overwhelmingly positive response. The project almost immediately [attracted attention of queer media](https://queer.pl/artykul/204685/zaimkipl-strona-jezyk-polski-niebinarnosc). -More people were helping out with creating it – and [on November 22nd, 2020 we gathered](https://twitter.com/neutratywy/status/1332403345542221827) +More people were helping out with creating it – and [on November 22nd, 2020 we gathered](https://twitter.com/neutratywy/status/1332403345542221827) together online to discuss how would such a cooperation work. We came up with [the name of the collective](/blog/why-the-name) and agreed on a non-hierarchical, anarcha-queer structure. @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ This feature was met with enthusiasm and prompted new feature requests: can we a So [@Ausir](/@Ausir), [@Szymon](/@Szymon) and [I](/@andrea) translated the website to English, researched the most popular neopronouns, looked up literature that uses it – -and on December 5th, 2020 [we announced the start of an English version](https://twitter.com/PronounsPage/status/1335322304931393536). +and on December 5th, 2020 [we announced the start of an English version](https://twitter.com/PronounsPage/status/1335322304931393536). It's the only one initially created by people who use the given language as their additional one (although later it was proof-read by native-speakers too). For all the others we were contacted by their native-speakers who offered help preparing the content, while we provided the technical tools and support.