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From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 07:57:44 EST

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    On 03/12/2003 17:48, Christopher John Fynn wrote:

    >Peter
    >
    >My message to Edward was off-line and he mistakenly replied to the list.
    >Apologies for any misunderstanding.
    >
    >The source of my information about SIL being backed by "very wealthy Christian
    >Evangelists" was someone who is probably the world's leading expert on
    >Himalayan Languages & Professor of Linguistics at one of the most prestigious
    >Universities in Europe. He even named some of the patrons.
    >
    >While in Bhutan, I met someone from SIL who was visiting there and came to
    >visit the department I was working for and he confirmed to me that a purpose of
    >SIL was to enable the spread the gospel in minority languages. Of course this
    >work also does a huge amount to advance literacy & computing in minority
    >languages in less developed countries - and SIL deserves a great deal of credit
    >for that. Very few other organisations are freely contributing in the same way
    >and probably no one on the same scale.
    >
    >If I'm wrong about the motivation of SIL or their patrons, I'm happy to stand
    >corrected. Not that there is anything wrong with the motivation I attributed to
    >them.
    >
    >With best regards
    >
    >- Chris
    >--
    >Christopher J. Fynn
    >
    >
    >
    >
    Thank you, Chris. This is a fair summary of the work of SIL. See also
    http://www.sil.org/sil/history.htm and the rest of the www.sil.org site.

    As far as the "very wealthy Christian Evangelists" are concerned, there
    are a lot of stories going around the Internet, some but not necessarily
    all spread by conspiracy theory nuts and/or by those with a clear
    anti-Christian agenda. I'm sure there is some truth there, and also a
    lot of exaggeration and faulty logic. For example, some of the arguments
    I have seen take a fact that A and B once had a meeting together as
    implying that A is the chief financial backer and secret controller of
    B's organisation.

    -- 
    Peter Kirk
    peter@qaya.org (personal)
    peterkirk@qaya.org (work)
    http://www.qaya.org/
    


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