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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> According to a story in Dutch newspaper NRC
Handelsblad the Summer Institute of Linguistics, which has fathered the
Ethnologue, is not as unbiased as it might seem. As I understand it's firstly a
Christian project, vising at the conversion into Christianity. Though it's
fostering endangered languages all around the world, it only does so in order to
promote the Bible in those languages, with sometimes disruptive consequences,
because those sent out into the streets to peddle the Bible make an amount of
money, way above the financial standards of their respective communities.
The most capable of these peddlers are being sent to the States to have them
discover that Christianity is the one and only true religion - through of course
prosperity, making them look down upon their own background. So, finally, the
work of SIL is vising at disrupting those selfsame societies which they purport
to protect. What does the list have to say on this?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lucas</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>