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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dear Trond Trosterud!</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Maybe I can give you a first hint at
the original quote in Yiddish by <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Max Weinreich
(1945) </span></b>“<font color="#333333"><span style='color:#333333'>A shprakh
iz a diyalekt mit an armey un a flot”. You will find it in the article
"Der yivo un di problemen fun undzer tsayt" in the periodical <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Yivo-bleter</span></i> 25(1), 1945.</span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>With best regards,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Yours, S.O.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Steffen Obeling</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Romanisches Seminar</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Universität Bonn</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText align=left style='text-align:left'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText align=left style='text-align:left'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>-----Ursprüngliche
Nachricht-----<br>
Von: owner-lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
[mailto:owner-lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu] Im Auftrag von Trond Trosterud<br>
Gesendet: Montag, 8. März 2004 09:34<br>
An: lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu<br>
Betreff: Re: CFP: FEL VIII: On the Margins of Nations: correction of e-mail</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Dear nicholas ostler!</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I am about to give a talk on laguage technology and minority languages </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>here in Tromsö (linked to my project http://giellatekno.uit.no).</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Connected to that I would like to give a quote. i believe it comes from
</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>you, in some publicaton I imagine i have seen you have paraphrased </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Uriel Weinreich's "a language is a dialect with a fleet and an
army" </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt'>into "a language is a dialect with a
machine-readable dictionary and </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>basic language technology resources" (as you see, my attempt at </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>remembering both quotes are quite inaccurate).</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>So, do you know what I am talking about? If so, could you send me the </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>quote (and I'll make it famous here in Tromsø)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Trond</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Trond Trosterud t +47 7764 4763</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Institutt for språkvitskap, Det humanistiske fakultet m +47 950 70140</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>N-9037 Universitetet i Tromsø, Noreg f +47 7764 4239</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Trond.Trosterud (a) hum.uit.no http://www.hum.uit.no/a/trond/</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></font></p>
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