Some of you are already aware of what has been happening here as the word workshop was in our last newsletter that went out. For those of you that haven't seen it, the word workshop is where people from one of the local tribes get together and list all the words they can think of regarding certain topics. There is a huge list of topics in English That they work from to help them think of the words and they then list all of the words in their language that are affiliated with that topic.
For example - The term head would result in thinks like skull, brain, ears, nose, mouth, face, hair, and so on. There also may be subgroups within this as well. For example the term "mouth" would result in things like teeth, taste, chew, bite, and so on. There will be overlap and some one will work through all the data later to organize it and create a dictionary.
Although I'm not directly involved with this particular
workshop I have been called to help some of the participants
translate medical terms from their language to English. All these
words will be the basis for a dictionary that will be developed over
the next couple of years. check out rapidwords.net to see what this
is all about.
A big thank you to P and S for all the work they did on the new buildings over the last 2 years. We have 4 new apartments, 5 new offices and a new conference room. The space has been well used for this workshop and I'm sure in the future.
