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