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L O W L A N D S - L - 16 December 2010 - Volume 02<br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
<span class="gi">LL-L "Language survival" 2010.12.15 (03) [EN-NDS]</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">That is quite appealing, at
least onthe face of it. Presumably this would go for all languages, not
just Afrikaans.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">I could then have some fun
trying to follow the other language, to see how much I could understand.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">A couple of possible
problems with that:</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">1) Twice as much
paper for printed versions (nearly 3 times as much for some languages). I
know a lot of journals are on line these days, but people still print the
papers out and there are still many hardcopy publications.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">2) What to do
about the technical terms? Do you create new words in the other language, or
just come up with versions of the "English" words that fit the
pronounciation of the language? (I use the quote marks, because most of these
words are about as English as Archimedes).</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">3) Who's going to
peer-review the non-English version, to make sure both actually say the same
thing? A professional translator might not grasp the subject enough to realise
there were contradicitions, so then you need another peer-reviewer who is fluent
in the language in question. (Possibly a problem if the original writer
happens to be the only Apache-speaking hydrogeologist in the world).</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Given deadlines and
workloads these days, I rather suspect people just won't bother.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Paul</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Derby</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">England</p>
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