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And Jan 18, 2023

Justin Trumain wrote:
Ice Scream wrote:
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You should read the whole article before posting. The source documents were government forms to request federal disaster assistance. The "translation" was random words and phrases copied from an old book that had nothing to do with the source text.

And, two of the texts were translated into the wrong languages. The Alaskan Yu'pik text was translated into a dialect of Yu'pik that is only spoken in Russia. The Iñupiat text was translated into Inuktitut, which is a Canadian language. All four these languages are "Eskimo" languages, though.

John Fossey wrote:
In some of these remote languages with a following of only a few thousand or even a few hundred native speakers...

Iñupiat has 2000 speakers. Yu'pik has 20 000 speakers. Both languages are "official languages" of Alaska, but so are about 10 other languages, and we don't know what is meant by that. Some countries that have "official languages" have them only in name.

[Edited at 2023-01-18 22:12 GMT]

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Busted! Jan 19, 2023

Justin Trumain wrote:
You should read the whole article before posting

Never let facts or truth get in the way of a confidently asserted opinion...

I still think the episode is funny and not a reason for anyone to be offended etc.

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