Dear Friends,
Greetings from cool, gray Lima. Nancy considers it cold and dreary, whereas I see it as an opportunity for the students to stay indoors and study. Judging from their phonology midterm, some did just that, while others may have spent a bit too much time outside coping with the cold. You might wonder what phonology has to do with Bible translation. Well, phonology is the systematic study of the sounds of language, partly how to identify and repeat them, and partly how to fit them into an alphabet. Both parts of this equation are important. To translate well, one must speak, and not just have an academic knowledge, of the language one is translating into.
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