In a similar vein to my post "Translation pls", I've discovered through a friend this blog post about Facebook and Tibetan at the Overlooking Tibet blog.
The writer considers the 'Facebook wall' to be personal space, which some people might take issue with, since it is still a public space where one broadcasts information to people on their friends list. However, the blog post alludes to wider expectations that American (and I'd say most English speakers for that matter) have that things be made available in English.
In any case, I could spend hours talking about this, but I'm off to attend a seminar at La Trobe Uni on Tibetic languages by the eminent Tibetologist Nicolas Tournadre, whose Manual of Standard Tibetan I own a copy of.
Très coincidental. Well maybe just a little bit.
The writer considers the 'Facebook wall' to be personal space, which some people might take issue with, since it is still a public space where one broadcasts information to people on their friends list. However, the blog post alludes to wider expectations that American (and I'd say most English speakers for that matter) have that things be made available in English.
In any case, I could spend hours talking about this, but I'm off to attend a seminar at La Trobe Uni on Tibetic languages by the eminent Tibetologist Nicolas Tournadre, whose Manual of Standard Tibetan I own a copy of.
Très coincidental. Well maybe just a little bit.
Enjoy the lecture! I actually studied with MST and use it for my tutoring students. It got me damn close to Tibetan fluency.
ReplyDeleteIt's a great book, and a great resource for learning the modern language, compared to all the other resources for learning the classical language in order to understand old Buddhist texts (which I think you mention in one of your older posts).
ReplyDeleteA friend got me another massive volume titled "Lhasa Verbs" when he visited Tibet. Have you heard of it? It's more of a reference guide than a textbook and it comes with a CD. (I love that the first entry in the book is ཀོ་བ་གཧོང་། 'to sail or row a yak skin boat', though I doubt I'll be using it anytime soon...)
By the way, not only is Nicolas Tournadre incredibly knowledgeable about the languages of the Tibetan plateau, he is also a really lovely person!
No, but I have the Verb Lexicon. http://www.amazon.com/Tibetan-Verb-Lexicon-Classes-Syntactic/dp/1559391960/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1319212437&sr=8-1 . It has pretty much every verb with all of its forms. Handy book. And then I have lots of great, fun, modern language resources.
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