Re: Summary (Re: A system for localizing documentation strings)

[Richard Stallman]

    Other elisp systems?  Reminds me of the story of a linguist
    researching some island dialect, who had to wrap up his work before
    the single person still speaking it was gone.  And one nagging doubt
    was that he suspected his sole study subject to speak the language
    incorrectly.

That might sound funny, but it is a real problem (sad to say).