Bible, Meet Smartphone
I read this Slashdot trail about this organization, Every Tribe Every Nation , (ETEN) whose aim is to produce and distribute Bibles in readable, mobile-ready formats in hundreds of languages including Norsk, Potawatomie, Bahasa Indonesia, and Hawai'i Pidgin. Never heard of most of these languages? Well, that’s the point: the aim is to spread the Bible among tribes, aka the old missionary impulse. Like most Slashdot discussions, it’s the comments below the article that are hilarious. An old wine in new bottles comment was “ You would think that people would be able to do away with these historic and completely ridiculous ideas by now. Instead they are still stuck in the dark ages, but now with shiny new technology ”. Others commended the effort, not for the missionary aspect, but for the fact the effort might result in some progress in rendering minority languages correctly on phones. Another guy responded to that saying “ Well, yes. But I do not think that is actually a good t...