Fw: [sovernspeakout] Inspiration Translation

[Mike Cleven]

Liland Brajant Ros' wrote:
>
> 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.

Well, theoretically the bulk of the Wawa-speaking population
historically was second-language speakers, whether First Nations or
Newcomers by background....

MC