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

Mark Williamson node.ue at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 22:55:50 UTC 2005


Oh - excuse me - it was Fred and Mark's posts I was thinking of.

Mark

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:53:03 -0800, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> 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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