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From: Ole Stig Andersen <osa at olestig.dk>
Subject: LL-L "Resources" 2002.04.19 (07) [E]

> From: "Mathieu. van Woerkom" <Mathieu.vanWoerkom at student.kun.nl>

> What is this Ethnologue anyhow?

Ethnologue is THE complete inventory surveying the world wide need of
Bible
translations.

Ethnologue also appears to have become linguists' most referred-to index
of
the World's languages. Probably because of its great detail: It can't be
because of it's precision.

Ethnologue is an instrument of the Evangelical Christian missionary
thrust.
It is a close companion of the Summer Institute of Lingustics, notorious
for
their culturcidal activities in Latin America the last half century.

For years these believers perform linguistic and anthropological studies
of
the highest academic quality among the world's smaller languages. They
then
publish scholarly grammars, dictionaries and texts, with the sole
purpose of
making the idols of their 20th century USAan Christian Fundamentalism
the
literary content of the written norm of as many language communities of
the
world as possible, before they die out.

Since the Ethnologuers' mission is to spread their Word everywhere, they
wouldn't risk to miss a language. So, in terms of linguistic theory,
they
choose to be extreme splitters. By default, they tend to see a language,
where others might hear just a dialect. Aha! a new orthograpic unfolding
for the Word!

Thus you'll find it difficult to convince the Ethnologuers to collapse
two
of their languages into one, whereas they willingly split any one
language
into two, just by the flick of an e-mail, so to speak. Test it for
yourself
on a language nearby! (http://www.sil.org)

The Biblo-Ethno-Cata-Logue has appeared in 13 editions or so now. The
latest edition postulates more than 6.800 languages in the World. And lo
and behold, the number of languages in their Inventory is steadily
rising,
although the number of languages in our Reality has been radically
declining in the same period.

Some coincidence!
or some correlation?

Ole Stig Andersen
http://www.olestig.dk

Now also missioning and researching aggressively in e.g. Nigeria, the
Philippines and the former Soviet Union, their conduct seem somewhat
less
malignant though no less destructive.

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