I was not trying to say that everybody should learn English. The point I was trying to make there is that knowing English is a privilege and that it is easy to not notice it.
I agree with that, too. How is teaching language different relative to the Foundation Mission than teaching subjects of encyclopedia articles?
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 1:11 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2018-02-27 21:23 GMT+02:00 James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com:
Languages are taught by authoritative dictionaries (after people, and ahead of almost all other similar reference books.)
... Yeah, and building an authoritative dictionary is considerably harder than building a (de facto) authoritative encyclopedia. Despite, I have enormous respect for Wiktionary, and great (great!) hopes about Lexical Wikidata.
Wiktionary has multiple teaching functions whether we want it to or not: https://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/efe362e1-fe80-4c90- bc1e-4ab2d9bbae20/1/
Why not :)
Amir, you know it would not be losing focus because of what you said in your talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_xJaqQV71s
Um... thanks for the publicity :)
But no, that's not what I said. I was not trying to say that everybody should learn English. The point I was trying to make there is that knowing English is a privilege and that it is easy to not notice it. Of course, if that point didn't come through, it's my fault.
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