[Wikipedia-l] The role of a wikipedia for a language like Hopi

Stan Shebs shebs at apple.com
Fri Mar 11 22:53:03 UTC 2005


Mark Williamson wrote:

>[...] the ideas of Stan and Delirium to create different
>Wikipedias for different cultures rather than different languages,
>which I think is a bad idea.
>
Whoa whoa whoa, you've completely misinterpreted what I said. All
I said was that language and culture are intertwined, even if you
don't want them to be. That used to be a truism in linguistics
back when I studied it, but that was twenty years ago and maybe
new theories are in vogue, I don't know.
 
Stan





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