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 doesnt? Ok, so we dont 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@ps.au.dk> >Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org >To: <air-l-aoir.org@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 .... :-) >_______________________________________________ >Air-l-aoir.org mailing list >Air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org _________________________________________________________________ Check out Election 2004 for up-to-date election news, plus voter tools and more! http://special.msn.com/msn/election2004.armx