ELL: To M. McDaniel

[Matthew McDaniel]

Mike:

The text is preliminary on the web as I do not know ahead of time what
people would find useful, and there is a limit of time, money and manpower
to put a walk through Akha library on the web.

The text is part of the text of a section on grammar.

Many Akha already read, so they know what it means in words but might not
understand its application without an instructor.  Since the book ranges
over many topics, it is not expected that the Akha just learning to read
would use this part.

The text starts with alphabet and tones, examples, stories, songs, ballads,
geneologies, medicinal treatments and in the end the grammar.

The grammar is included in the book, but it is not expected that Akha people
would use this alone, rather in a teaching environment with an Akha
instructor.

The grammar is the last thing that I think an Akha would learn, learning to
read first things which they use commonly in their oral traditions.

I did not write the grammar, so the next time I see the writer and editor I
will ask him about it.

Any Akha with internet access could look at the text and pick and choose
what THEY find useful.

I don't know what you are looking for so I don't know what you will find
useful.

If you can ask me I will have some place to start.

Overall your tone sounds very critical.

Matthew







Mike_Cahill at SIL.ORG wrote:

> Matthew,
>
> I checked your Akha web site and it had such "useful" entries as
>
>  2.  Ahf jurhv ahf chah auhf ehf mahf nehv-urh dawv teh:
>         (verb, preposition of species)
>         Oeuhv jayv jyahxf urh meh.
>
> Who is this supposed to be useful to? A native English speaker has no
> information to tell what in the world is going on here. Who else would
> benefit? Do the Akha have enough internet access so that this is supposed
> to help them learn their own grammar? What in the world is a "preposition
> of species"?  A lot of effort, but for what?
>
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