Re: Archiving language information (was Re: Saving endangered langs (was Re: Extrapolating languages))

Vladimir Vysotsky wrote at 2003-12-26 21:36:22 (-0800)
 > Tim May wrote:
 > > Paul Bennett wrote at 2003-12-26 17:04:17 (-0500)
 > >> deeply carved with warnings in six popular languages (ISTR English,
 > >> Russian, Spanish, Hindi, Chinese and Arabic)?
 > >
 > > as above but with French rather than Russian, as these would then be
 > > the official languages of the UN
 >
 > Sorry for nitpicking, but to make the list of UN official
 > languages, you'll need to leave Russian and remove Hindi
 > instead. The Sandia PDF also adds Navajo ("[the language]
 > of the largest group of Native Americans in the area").
 >
Oh, I'm terribly sorry.  That's what I meant to write.  "with French
instead of Hindi", not Russian.  The UN could hardly have failed to
recognize Russian!  That kind of error happens when I
post things at 3 in the morning.