And are you arguing, then, that there is no reading population of Ancient Greek? If that were the case, there would be no reason for them to have published Harry Potter in the language - who would read it? Nobody.
Mark
On 17/04/2008, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:24 PM, daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 4/16/2008 11:05:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, wknight8111@gmail.com writes:
There must be native speakers of a language in order to read material written in it.
I beg to disagree. I am a native English speaker, but there are many topics I prefer to read in Hebrew, my second language.
You're right, and I likely shouldn't have used the word "native" in my earlier statement. First, second, or n-th language, there must be people capable of reading that language to play the part of content consumer. Without a sizable reading population, a language project becomes little more then encryption: putting information into a form that cannot be easily accessed.
--Andrew Whitworth
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