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Down On The Farm
2 minutesI don’t know quite where to start. There is this house just across the road from the campus where we live and the backyard is a farmyard. They own a dog that runs around on a zip wire, some ducks that waddle around in a huge group (safety in numbers), a whole bunch of goats, […]
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Reflections on Bible Translation Conference 2011
5 minutesI had the wonderful privilege of attending The 6th Biennial Bible Translation Conference over the last several days. The conference brought together linguists, translators and consultants from all over the world to discuss topics impacting the field today. Overall, I was tremendously blessed by the interactions, discussions, presentations, plenary sessions and speakers. It is truly an exciting […]
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Face To Face With A Giraffe
1 minuteAs you can see on Saturday Poppy literally came face to face with a giraffe at Dallas zoo. While Drew was attending a Bible translation conference here at GIAL, we (my parents and I) packed a picnic and the babies in the car and headed to the zoo. Drew had snagged us a bargain of a […]
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Three Down, One to Go
2 minutesOn Friday we finished out the third session at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics. Here we are with our Yoruba language consultant, Abi. We’ve been meeting with Abi three times a week for the last two months, learning about his language and culture. For our final Yoruba test we had to do language demonstrations […]