From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 12:57:25 EDT
"Tim Greenwood" <timg1952@aol.com> wrote on 07/10/2003 10:44:57 AM:
> The point is not that any potential attendee would actually travel
> to the wrong place. It is that advertising the 24th conference as
> Atlanta, GA but the 23rd as Prague, Czech Republic is part of a
> cultural arrogance in the USA.
Sure, it's better not to assume "USA" is understood, but the criticism was
being taken too far. The original criticism was certainly valid, but
taking it to the extent of suggesting that people will do a lot of
research on villages and suburbs in Gabon is, IMO, absurd. If you do a
google search on "atlanta, ga", you'd have to wade through pages and pages
of results related to the US city in the state of Georgia before you'd
come close to anything else, and if somebody hasn't figured out by that
point that the conference is probably in Atlanta, Georgia, USA rather than
a village in a country not particularly known for involvement in this
industry, then they're probably not intelligent enough to be involved in
this industry anyway.
- Peter
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Peter Constable
Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
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