December 2010
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Jamaican Bible on BBC →
BBC reports on reaction to the Jamaican Creole Bible Translation.
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GOD-LOVING LINGUISTS | More Intelligent Life →
The Economist’s Laura Spinney writes about SIL International’s role in publishing and editing the Ethnologue, a catalogue of the world’s languages. She writes, “With thousands of languages still undocumented, many of which are in danger of dying before they are written down, it looks as though these emissaries of faith will continue to find plenty of work to keep them...
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ISO 639-3 Registration Authority - SIL... →
Did you know that SIL International is the registration authority for ISO part 639-3 which establishes codes for the representation of names of languages?
“ISO 639-3 is a code that aims to define three-letter identifiers for all known human languages.”
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It's not looking a lot like Christmas!
I can’t tell you how much it does NOT feel like Christmas here. So last week, in a desperate attempt to get into the Christmas spirit, I put on some Perry Como. Now imagine this… the front doors are wide open onto the veranda, outside there’s barely a breeze so the palm trees are standing absolutely still, the celing fan pointlessly whirs away as it only stirs the 32°C air laiden...
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My take on 2010: Stuff It!
Imagine this: you’re given a shopping list, then you’re fired out of a canon through a market, and when you land on the other side, you’re supposed to have picked up everything on the list. That’s how I feel when I look back at 2010 and assess whether or not I accomplished my goals for the year!
I think 2010 just might have been one of the quickest years I’ve experienced in my whole life! Now...