Fw: [sovernspeakout] Inspiration Translation

[Liland Brajant Ros']

FYI, from the prospectus's Contributor Requirements:

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Contributors should be native speakers of the language for which they are
submitting an article.

If it is a 'dead' or ancient language, ideally someone who is a descendant
of the culture would be preferred.

The contributors should be knowledgeable about their languages, including
culture, linguistics, literature, and arts. (Ideal contributors would be
university language; professors, lecturers and advanced graduate students.
Also, someone with an intense personal interest in their language would be a
good contributor.)

We can communicate over the internet so contributors can be located anywhere
in the world.

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I have my doubts about both the "descendant of the culture" notion (when
applied to languages that have been dead and unused as long as, say,
Ugaritic) and the notion that professors and doctoral students would make
the best contributors. And of course there are few native chinUk wawa
speakers today, regardless of ancestry or academic qualifications.

Liland

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