[Magdalen] Tower of Babel.

[James Handsfield]

When I was serving on one of CDC’s IRBs, we received a protocol for a proposed study in Burkina Faso.  In the protocol, the PI said that the consent forms would be translated as they proceeded.  Of course, we asked why they couldn’t be printed.  The PI informed us that there are over 200 distinct languages spoken in Burkina Faso.

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Jim Handsfield
jhandsfield at att.net

> On Jul 6, 2019, at 11:34 AM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> I checked online on the subject of Tamil ethnics because this makes uppart of the ethnic background of one of our popular USA Presidentialcandidates.  In doing so, I noted what a polyglot country India is.  Thereare dozens of languages spoken by millions and only a relatively smallnumber of primary Hindi speakers.  Some of the languages areIndoEuropean and some are not.
> For some reason, the USA does not have a significant number of Tamils,but there is a large community in Canada.
> This situation in India makes me wonder how the ethnics communicate.
> And yet there is complaint about the increasingly bilingual USA.