{"id":194,"date":"2010-10-20T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T15:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/?p=194"},"modified":"2010-11-15T00:44:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T04:44:18","slug":"we-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/2010\/10\/20\/we-did-it\/","title":{"rendered":"We did it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0\">We did it!\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-204\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/files\/2010\/10\/IMG_1033a-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1033a\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/files\/2010\/10\/IMG_1033a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/files\/2010\/10\/IMG_1033a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/files\/2010\/10\/IMG_1033a-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/files\/2010\/10\/IMG_1033a-165x110.jpg 165w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/files\/2010\/10\/IMG_1033a-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/files\/2010\/10\/IMG_1033a.jpg 1791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We were able to surprise Dennis\u2019s parents, Duane and Dora, with a fiftieth anniversary party.\u00a0 They had no idea about it until we opened the door and everyone yelled \u201csurprise!\u201d.\u00a0 There were friends and family from 6 states here for the party.\u00a0 Duane und Dora are a great example to us in their commitment to the Lord and to us over all these years.\u00a0 Duane continues to do electrical work here at the Missionary Training Center each day and Dora baby-sits our kids some to enable Monika to help Dennis with the course. Dora also helps out at the Missionary Training Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0\">We did it!\u00a0 <\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We were able to finish changing over all our linguistics material from the americanist phonetic alphabet to the international phonetic alphabet.\u00a0 We had to alter hundreds of pages of documents and many PowerPoint presentations and check and recheck them for accuracy. We praise the Lord for the gifted people he provided us with so that we could get it done in time for the semester to start.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff\">\u00a0<strong>\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #99ccff\">Linguistics DYK<\/span><\/h2>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #99ccff\">\u00a0Did you know that there is a language with only two vowel sounds <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #99ccff\">and another that has 31 vowel sounds?\u00a0 Also, one language has only <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #99ccff\">six consonant sounds and another has as many as 77 consonant sounds.<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #99ccff\">*According to one theory, English has 24 consonant sounds and 20 <\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #99ccff\">vowels sounds.<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff\">\u00a0<strong>\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387\u0387<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0\">Our family<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We are doing well.\u00a0 Lukas is 4 now and Niklas is 2 \u00bd and they are very active boys.\u00a0 Dennis has a new class.\u00a0 There are 7 students learning how to analyze the sound system and the grammar of an unwritten language.\u00a0 This will help them learn the tribal language well and to develop an alphabet in order to be able to translate the Bible. Monika has had the opportunity to get involved with Mothers of Preschoolers (MoPs) this year.\u00a0 It has allowed her to get to know other ladies in the area.\u00a0 She is desirous that the Lord would use her to be a blessing to the ladies that she comes in contact with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did it!\u00a0 \u00a0 We were able to surprise Dennis\u2019s parents, Duane and Dora, with a fiftieth anniversary party.\u00a0 They had no idea about it until we opened the door and everyone yelled \u201csurprise!\u201d.\u00a0 There were friends and family from 6 states here for the party.\u00a0 Duane und Dora are a great example to us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,3823],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","category-ministry","category-news-article","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}