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[canuckophile]

I think there was a thread (but I can't find it) throwing out the question of whether we English teachers are helping to stomp out some of the world's languages. (FWIW I don't t hink we are - there are too many other factors).

Interested to see this article on how MICROSOFT WINDOWS is helping to save one of the old (Aztec, I think) languages of Peru.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14514949/

I also saw a short article recently on how SCRABBLE is helping to save one of the North American Indian languages (can't remember which - not Navajo, but one of the other main ones).

So maybe things will finally start getting BETTER for the world's small and threatened languages.

[Guy Courchesne]

Very interesting indeed! Microsoft, the great homogenizer. I like it.

I've always found it ironic and depressing that it is difficult to find courses in Nahuatl language study in Mexico - language of the Aztecs and other tribes.
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