tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24302671593836149742011-04-21T21:10:49.886-07:00An honest and open look at anything that catches my fancy. But it'll probably relate to culture, global issues, language, God and anything slightly weird.Kentnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430267159383614974.post-37559060361476219222008-02-06T04:12:00.000-08:002008-02-06T04:49:26.893-08:00When I opened up Blogger today, the program I use to write this (thanks Blogger!), they had a blurb about "a huge milestone". They've added <strong>Arabic, Persian and Hebrew</strong> to the other <a href="http://www.blogger.com/language.g">37 languages</a> into which Blogger is translated. They are excited because unlike the other languages, Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew are written from right to left (which as you can imagine raises a few computer-related issues...).<br /><br />While this will be a major step forward for our Arabic, Persian and Hebrew blogging brethren and sisteren (suggestions for what is a better word to use there gratefully accepted), I am simply not impressed. <em>40 languages is less than 1% of the world's languages.</em><br /><br />If you want more languages, go to Jesus in My Language at <a href="http://www.jesusinmylanguage.org/">http://www.jesusinmylanguage.org/</a> where they have parts of the Gospel of Mark (from the Bible) in almost 100 languages. Which is still not 2% of the languages spoken out there.<br /><br />But if you actually dig into the figures, bits of <strong>the Bible have now been translated into more than 2,400 languages.</strong> Not bad for a book where the new bits are almost 200o years old. In fact it's the most translated book out there.<br /><br />So look out for the new Hebrew, Arabic and Persian blogs on blogger. I know I am! But don't expect what they say (or certainly not what I say) to have the staying power of the Bible. Which started out being written in Hebrew anyway... in a part of the world where Arabic is now pretty widely used... and at one stage the Hebrews were taken into exile into what was to become Persia...<br /><br />Funny how things come full circle, isn't it?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2430267159383614974-3755906036147621922?l=kentsculturalcorner.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430267159383614974.post-50644748295143553482008-02-04T09:22:00.000-08:002008-02-04T09:24:16.564-08:00Just like our lives, this blog is empty until we write something on it.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2430267159383614974-5064474829514355348?l=kentsculturalcorner.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kentnoreply@blogger.com