... so that kind of "universal appeal" corpus
The one liner: "you are not a prophet in your own land" (apparently derived from the Bible: Luke 4:24, Jesus said: "Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country"), I take as meaning: "if all you know is 'your land', you would only be able to 'preach to your own choir'".
I think truth, true relevance always has more to it.
On 4/2/23, Hugh Paterson III sil.linguist@gmail.com wrote:
In terms of defining decolonization or its inverse colonization ...
"In terms of defining decolonization or its inverse colonization" did you just say? Based on your email address you seem to have an invested interest in portraying yourself as some sort of "SIL linguist". If you are an actual person, let me just tell you that the word "decolonization" I had never heard, I have no idea about what it could possibly mean and since colonization hasn't stopped to begin with at least you should have written your sentence as "In terms of defining colonization AND its inverse decolonization", right? Even an AI bot of the ones being used to keep the Internet would notice the difference.
... must colonization only apply to the 19th century?
Do you mean "must colonization only apply to the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 21th centuries"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_colonialism
Let's not get into what you call "modern colonization"
lbrtchx
On 4/2/23, Hugh Paterson III sil.linguist@gmail.com wrote:
In terms of defining decolonization or its inverse colonization, I have often wondered if we are seeing modern colonization, e.g. of a military style Russia in Syria or Ukraine, and/or US in Iraq, of an economic style China in Vanuatu, and some African contexts. etc. that is, must colonization only apply to the 19th century? Following that then to what degree do the corpora and ML/AI tools we create facilitate these un-equal relationships.
Kind regards -Hugh