Marc, Exactly in a dead language you do NOT want innovation because as a consequence it is no longer that language. Thanks, GerardM
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
I wouldn't dedicated too much effort to the Old English Wikipedia if I were you. Who's going to read it? You're just producing learning aids for people learning the language, you're not really creating an encyclopaedia.
So much for creativity and innovation, Thomas :-(. A person is usually advised not to attempt something because of possible negative effects
and/or
outcome. Is that the case here? I think not.
on 4/2/08 1:11 PM, Thomas Dalton at thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
The negative effects are the loss of his time. That's only really a negative effect for him, <snip>
How many innovators have been cautioned not to waste their time on something? I would think that would be for him to be concerned about.
Sounds like a worthwhile project to me.
What will it achieve? In particular, how will it further out goal to provide the sum of human knowledge to people?
Thomas, you speak of "sum" as though it were finite. It's about discovery, perhaps the greatest of purposes.
Marc
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