From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang (ytang0648@aol.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 18:54:39 EST
As I understand, SIL ALSO do a lot of Language Survey (see
http://www.ethnologue.com/ ), Language Research (see
http://www.sil.org/silesr/yearindex.asp?year=2003 ) and Literacy work
for different national/international organization as services which are
not religious-oriented (althought it could be religous motivated) tasks.
Edward H. Trager wrote:
> On Wednesday 2003.12.03 19:59:45 -0000, Christopher John Fynn wrote:
> >
> > > or donate them to a community organization
> > > like SIL (http://www.sil.org/) or Primož Peterlin's FreeFont project
> > > (http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/).
> >
> >
> > Ed, SIL is backed by very wealthy Christian evangelists whose
> purpose is to
> > translate the Bible and other Christian material into every
> language. Depending
> > on your POV you might consider them to be a community organization"
> or as some
> > kind of religious imperialists.
>
> Thanks, Chris, I did not know that. I recently saw some good
> publicity about the
> author of the Gentium font who I believe works for SIL and that's
> really all I know
> about them.
>
> >
> >
> >
> > - Chris
> >
>
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