Thursday, October 3, 2013

One final post regarding the Lotud RWC workshop:

While the workshop participants were unable to complete the glossing and data entry for all of the words that were collected during the workshop, I left Sabah, Malaysia feeling that these people had learned the techniques associated with RWC well enough to be able to organize themselves for the completion of the task that they had begun. They appear to have the motivation. Now they simply have to find the appropriate moment in the year, when more people are available to help with the work that needs to be done. It seems that will be around February of next year, when there is a school holiday and Lotud speakers who are teachers or students will be able to contribute.

So I come away feeling like I accomplished my mission - though the nature of my mission ended up being a bit different than what I originally perceived it to be, as I pointed out in an earlier post.