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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=890332918-24082005>Bill,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=890332918-24082005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN class=890332918-24082005>Do you know
what the definition of a linguist is?:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=890332918-24082005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN class=890332918-24082005>Someone who
dies of hunger in a delicatessen shop. :-)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=890332918-24082005>Fritz</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE><TT><BR>When I first went to Germany I had the odd experience of
being<BR>able to understand most of the signs and so forth but
discovering<BR>that I lacked very basic conservational vocabulary. On the
plane<BR>on the way over I had read a 200 page computer-science document<BR>in
preparation for the meeting we were going to, but as we were<BR>jostled in the
crowded airport I had to ask my companion, whose<BR>German is excellant, how
to say "Excuse me", an expression which<BR>seems not to be frequent in the
linguistic or mathematical<BR>literature, or even in German poetry. And in
spite of my ability<BR>to say such things as "sound law", "juxtaposition", and
"Hilbert space",<BR>I knew the names of very few of the items on the breakfast
table.<BR><BR><BR>Bill<BR><BR>--<BR>Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of
Pennsylvania<BR><A
href="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/">http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/</A>
billposer@alum.mit.edu<BR></TT>
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