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

[Ray Saintonge]

Stan Shebs 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.

I think that the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis has had some severe criticism, 
but I believe that it still has a role.  One still has to avoid reading 
too much into it as Mark seems to have done.

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