[Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
You are correct :)
Thanks,
       GerardM

On 24 February 2011 00:50, Casey Brown <lists at caseybrown.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 06:55, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> One thought occurred to me: there is no representation of Asian
> languages in
> >> the committee (and I don't mean only Indian languages). Would the
> committee
> >> want to consider an expansion in membership to include someone who is
> fluent
> >> in one or more Asian languages?
> >
> > In principle yes, but... [1]
> >
> > Linguistic qualifications for becoming a LangCom member are not so
> > simple. After a couple of years in LangCom, I may say that many
> > professors of linguistics don't fit. And the main reason is not their
> > knowledge, but attitude toward languages. Or, to be more precise,
> > their boldness. For example, LangCom tasks require from one
> > Indo-Europeanist to give expertize on any Indo-European language, but
> > many of them would say that the classification of, let's say, Kurdish
> > languages is not the part of their job, but the part of the job of an
> > expert in Iranian languages. Such expert in LangCom is basically
> > useless.
>
> Doesn't the language committee also actively seek out experts in
> different languages when they need to?  I seem to recall you guys
> having all test wikis checked by a linguist/expert who speaks the
> language before they are created.
>
> So it's not like people who speak Asian (or other similar) languages
> aren't being actively involved, it's just that none of them are in the
> "administrative committee" at this time.  At least that's how I
> remember it being explained many threads ago. :-)
>
> --
> Casey Brown
> Cbrown1023
>
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