"Ken Beesley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > And did not Ludovico Bertonio happened to be a JESUIT
> > himself? And, of course, his work on Aymara was
> > developed on a misionary basis.
> >
> > It must be a Jesuitic conspiration :)
>
>
> Alex,
>
> You're joking, of course, but I really didn't mean to imply
> that there was anything like a conspiracy.
Yes indeed, I was joking. In fact, I have nothing
against the Sons of Loyola. And what is more,
I acknowledge the huge language-related work they
did all over the Americas. Most early native grammars
in the Spanish America had jesuitic authorship.
> I'm from a religious background myself (Mormon) and I worked
> for a company (ALPS, later ALPNET) that, though quite secular itself,
> grew out of an earlier machine-translation project at Brigham Young
> University that had definite religious motivation.
Did not the Brigham Young University develop a
proficiency test on aymara for foreigners, or
something alike?
> So I am sincerely interested in religious motivations behind
> a variety of machine-translation projects.
Well, perhaps we are far from reliable Bible
machine-translations yet (I think that a man-made
Book of Mormon translation is available in
Aymara, am I right?)
waliki
Alex
