I think it is a great suggestion.<div>I would also like to join others in extending support and appreciation to Professor Schiffman for maintaining this list. It is important to know the most chauvinistic/racial approaches to language policy form a rational response (or protest) to those.</div>
<div>Regards,</div><div>Aditi Ghosh<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 May 2010 21:12, Harold Schiffman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Dear members,<br>
<br>
I thank all those of you who have responded on this issue, all of whom<br>
have been supportive of continuing to send messages,<br>
even "offensive" ones, as a way to ensure that we know what we are<br>
dealing with "out there" and that we won't get<br>
complacent about sentiments we do not agree with. I currently have a<br>
disclaimer at the end of all messages I send,<br>
in which people are encouraged to post a rejoinder if they disagree<br>
with something. I would like to amend this to<br>
recommend in addition that if members disagree with, say, a message<br>
from the British National Party, or from the English<br>
Only people, that they write to those people, and register their<br>
discontent with them directly. A copy of that message<br>
could be forwarded to this list, just so we know about it.<br>
<br>
Yours,<br>
<br>
Hal Schiffman<br>
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Harold F. Schiffman<br>
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Professor Emeritus of<br>
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture<br>
Dept. of South Asia Studies<br>
University of Pennsylvania<br>
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br>
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Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>
Fax: (215) 573-2138<br>
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Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br>
<a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a><br>
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