[JustPiper]

I say if I was a translator and worried about the WOT what better way to help:

Audit Finds Large FBI Translation Backlog
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&u=/ap/20040927/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_translation_3&printer=1

[Selene]

Beslan Hostage-Takers Called Saudi Arabia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1228830/posts


The puppet masters

[nwctwx]

I'm not learning Arabic just for the enormous fun (ok, *misery* might fit better here) of doing so. ;)

I've heard about the backlog myself from the person who started the program at UConn. I can only imagine what is still sitting around un-translated. It's one of my sticking points on Iraq when my dunder-head liberal friends try to 'explain how it really is' in regards to the war, WMD, etc. I just hope we can catch up before it is too late, I still don't think many people realize how much they could help the country by learning Arabic. The program has continued in our school, but I think this may be the last year, there are only 5 new students beginning this semester.

[Selene]

We all should learn arabic.
How hard could it be?

The only thing I would worry about is that maybe the language changes a persons brain synapses so that it is impossible to not love death satan.