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It is Monday morning, 10 AM. Monday’s are always a bit crazy as it seems like there is always a backlog of things to do that have accumulated during the weekend. For some reason this Monday seems a bit crazier than normal. Sometimes people ask me what I do in this job and I often [...] In the olden days of Bible Translation, development of a working orthography (aka alphabet) for an unwritten language was a long and drawn out process. Having elicited several hundred words, the translator/linguist would do a phonological analysis, looking for how the different sounds were used and distributed in the language. On the basis of this [...] When Kathy and I first came to Papua New Guinea in 1985, we were the proud owners of our first computer. It had a 2 inch by 6 inch LCD screen and 35 kilobytes of RAM. What, we wondered, would we do with all that memory. We had purchased a small printer to go with [...] It was Friday afternoon and things were winding down for the week when the biggest thing to happen in PBT-PNG this year occured. There was a knock at the front door and in walked a couple from Summer Institute of Linguistics with boxes containing the finished translation of the book of Acts in the Ap [...] Following are some interesting statistics about the status of Bible Translation around the world. World Population: 6.5 Billion |
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