On 08/27/2010 11:26 AM, Mark Williamson wrote:
> Two of the biggest remaining problems (of which there are, naturally,
> many many many others):
>
> 1) Transparency. ...
> 2) Eurocentrism. ...
Mark, if you post more than one message per day, reiterating how
irritated you are with Gerard, then the
I hope nobody gets the impression that I'm just an American sniping at
Europeans. I wouldn't be much happier if it was half Americans and
half Europeans, or even all Americans. The majority of the world's
non-endangered languages are spoken in Asia and Africa, so on a
committee that deals with lang
I want to remind participants of this discussion that the subject of
this thread is "Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles". Whenever you
want to talk about LangCom, please fork the thread with the subject
which makes sense.
I didn't read this thread up to yesterday afternoon, when Amir told me
tha
Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
>> 2) Eurocentrism. Not an accusation to be made lightly, but look at the
>> geographic composition of the langcom. 9/13 members currently reside
>> in Europe, another is originally from Europe, 2 from Canada and 1 from
>> California. Hmm... so the population of Europe is
> 2) Eurocentrism. Not an accusation to be made lightly, but look at the
> geographic composition of the langcom. 9/13 members currently reside
> in Europe, another is originally from Europe, 2 from Canada and 1 from
> California. Hmm... so the population of Europe is 10% of the Earth's
> populati
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Mark Williamson wrote:
> 2) Eurocentrism.
[snip]
> another is originally from Europe,
The one "originally from Europe" still spent most of his life in the
Middle East which we should be applauding as a departure from the
"Eurocentrism" that you mention and not l
Two of the biggest remaining problems (of which there are, naturally,
many many many others):
1) Transparency. Maybe some experts fear retaliation - okay, use
pseudonyms or contribute anonymously. Just have someone summarize your
opinion for public archives. Does Gerard fear retaliation? From whom
