[Air-l] minorities

[J. J.]

Hi Jakob,
<I admit that we might miss important work and exclude some persons by 
having English as a <working language but the costs of including more 
languages are too big, in my opinion.

I find that every time we talk about minority participation in anything, 
someone brings up arguments such as yours. But just think for a moment, if 
all the money spent on the war in Iraq (200 billion!!) were devoted to to 
excavation of historical artifacts in this ancient land with the involvement 
of the United Nations . Sounds bizarre? War doesn’t?

Ok, so we don’t have the Pentagon budget. Can we afford the loss? I think 
that our priorities should be put first, then the money will follow, not the 
other way around.

Jarek



>From: "Jakob Linaa Jensen" <Jakob.Linaa at ps.au.dk>
>Reply-To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>To: <air-l-aoir.org at listserv.aoir.org>
>Subject: [Air-l] Hungarian and others 2
>Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:48:25 +0200
>
>
>Let me add to my previous comment that I think we should definitely
>welcome contributions from other language areas and countries than those
>traditionally contributing. My comments addressed the question of the
>working language for the AoIR conferences alone, just to avoid any
>misunderstandings .... :-)
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