Re: Anyone speak Efe or Baka?

Ruud Harmsen wrote:

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:36:11 +0100: "Ekkehard Dengler"
<ED-RS@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

Peter T. Daniels schrieb:

There isn't any good wikipedia.

What if you wrote an article for it? You seem to underestimate the number of
people who are profoundly knowledgeable about something and want the world
at large to be better informed.

When I first heard of Wikipedia, I thought that it couldn't possibly work,
only to find later that it somehow does.

E.g., I just found a Dutch police rank that a fellow-translator was
trying to translate into English. No dictionary properly explained it.
Wikipedia knew that it is obsolete since 1990. It still occurs in
books and tv series though.

Yet you, a native speaker of Dutch, were not aware that some word
somehow became obsolete exactly 16 years ago? Except that it's not
obsolete, since it's still used?

How is that supposed to be an argument _for_ wikipedia?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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