The NYT Magazine has an interesting article by Tina Rosenberg about technology and endangered languages today. It's mostly a good article except for the author's utter inability to distinguish between a writing system and a language. Why oh why don't they run these things by a linguist before publishing them?
Sunday, December 11, 2011
N'Ko is an ORTHOGRAPHY
The NYT Magazine has an interesting article by Tina Rosenberg about technology and endangered languages today. It's mostly a good article except for the author's utter inability to distinguish between a writing system and a language. Why oh why don't they run these things by a linguist before publishing them?
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"Why oh why can't they run article-about-X past a person-knowledgeable-about-X?"
... no time and no incentive, for almost any technical topic X!
Yeah, that's about right, I fear. But this really isn't a local feature in a mid-sized paper. If the NYT Magazine can't do something that simple ...
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