re SIL

[Scott DeLancey]

> Love it!  I may have to use that quote.  Do you have the actual source?
> S/he deserves to be quoted.

This story has been around all my life (which is getting to be
quite awhile), and probably longer--I can certainly remember
hearing it in junior high school.  It gets quoted a lot, I'll
bet you can find thousands of instances on google.  You'll find 
it attributed to all kinds of folks--usually small-town ministers
or state legislators in one of those states that the rest of us
like to make fun of.  There might actually be a true source, way
back in the dim past, but I kind of doubt it, it has a pretty
apocryphal odor about it.

Scott DeLancey

> :-)
>
>
> Carol
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Indigenous Languages and Technology
> [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of William J Poser
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 8:06 AM
> To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ILAT] re SIL
>
>> To see a smiling portrait of blue-eyed blonde Jesus (the rabbi Yeshua)
>> surrounded by the earths laughing children of every ethnicity is
>> ...amazing
>
> I've always liked the statement by a particularly ignorant English-only
> advocate that "If English was good enough for Jesus it should be good
> enough for us."
>
> Bill
>
>