[Foundation-l] Ancient Greek Wikipedia, possible reconsideration

Thu Apr 17 10:41:53 UTC 2008

And are you arguing, then, that there is no reading population of
Ancient Greek? If that were the case, there would be no reason for
them to have published Harry Potter in the language - who would read
it? Nobody.

Mark

On 17/04/2008, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:24 PM,  <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
>  >  In a message dated 4/16/2008 11:05:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>  > wknight8111 at gmail.com writes:
>  >
>  > >  There  must be native speakers of a language in order to read
>  > >  material written in  it.
>  >
>  >  I beg to disagree. I am a native English speaker, but there are many topics
>  >  I prefer to read in Hebrew, my second language.
>
>
> You're right, and I likely shouldn't have used the word "native" in my
>  earlier statement. First, second, or n-th language, there must be
>  people capable of reading that language to play the part of content
>  consumer. Without a sizable reading population, a language project
>  becomes little more then encryption: putting information into a form
>  that cannot be easily accessed.
>
>
>  --Andrew Whitworth
>
>
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