Latin? No idea. Esperanto? The same reason you'd look it up in
English, except chances are Esperanto is not their first language, and
there's a good chance the same information is available in whatever
their native language actually *is*.
--node
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:26:48 -0400, James R. Johnson
<modean52(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Why would anyone look for that same article in the
Latin-language
encyclopedia, or an Esperanto-language encyclopedia?
James
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Mark Williamson wrote:
Uhh... what about Hebrew? Manchu? Manx? Cornish?
Since when do
languages not revive successfully by teaching them to children?
They revive successfully by teaching them to children as a daily-use
language. Is Wikipedia related to that? I suppose it could be in some
ways, but I can't seriously see people using the Gothic Wikipedia as a
source of general encyclopedia-type information. If you want to know
some random fact (say, the biography of Charlemagne), why would anyone
look for it in a Gothic-language encyclopedia?
-Mark
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