more flash fun

Jordan Lachler lachler at UNM.EDU
Sat Apr 22 21:31:10 UTC 2006


Hi again,

>Does anyone - besides me - think that including English when its
>parenthetical demeans the Indigenous language?

While I understand and appreciate this viewpoint, and even sympathize 
with it to some extent, I have not heard this viewpoint expressed by 
any community members.  Basically their reactions have been that they 
are excited to see and hear their language used on the Web (just like 
English is), and to have a fun tool to help them and their kids learn 
a few words of it (just like they have for Spanish and French, 
etc.).  Given how many other far-less-subtle ways the language has 
been demeaned over the past century or so, the community members seem 
to prefer to focus on the ways in which the language is empowered by 
tools such as this...

Jordan 



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