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Date:  Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:54:11 +0200
From:  linguist at linguistlist.org
Subject: Linglite Fund Drive Update - Please take a moment to read...

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Dear Lingliters,

We'd like to take a moment to update you on the progress of our Fund
Drive, and show you a particular highlight from this week's letters: a
personal note from LINGUIST List Advisor Ahmad R. Lotfi, based in
Iran.

We know that you are very busy, but we hope you can take a moment to
read the following brief messages.

As we write, we have raised $20,872, which is just one third of the
way towards our target of $60,000.  This figure represents the
generosity of 352 donors - that's not even 2% of our 18,300+
subscribers!  If the 17,948 subcribers who have not made a donation
yet were to give just $2.50, we would hit our target.

Please consider making a donation. The money goes to supporting
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Thank you very much for reading this email.  Please read on for Dr
Lotfi's letter.


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~From Saturday (http://http://linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-1098.html)

Dear linguists,

Have you ever been to Iran for a conference or sth?

If yes, then you know how it looks when your aeroplane lands at
Mehrabad Airport: the first impression is that there's almost no
colour around. Almost everything is brown. After you land, you are
taken to customs in a bus so old that you probably can't find one like
it anywhere else.

When you finally manage to get away from the airport, you are
surprised to see so many oldie cars still moving around in narrow
streets built half a century ago. The hotel you stay in and the
university building where your conference is held are not much better.

And when you make the fatal mistake of having a look at the library,
you're terrified out of your wits when you learn that almost all of
its dusty books on its dusty shelves date back to a time you were not
even born!

BUT people in linguistics departments are not dinosaurs at all. They
look like any other colleagues of ours: familiar with the latest
trends and topics of discussion in the field, where and when
conferences on such and such are held, which books and journals have
recently come out, which teaching positions and other jobs of interest
to linguists are now available here and there, ... even which friends
and colleagues of ours have left us forever.

Surprised? Of course not!  Linguists - whether in NY, London, Paris,
Beijing, New Delhi, or Tehran - have been reading the same LINGUIST
List issues for years.

Let's not forget that all this has been made possible by the generous
donations made by members. We don't want to see the Tower of Babel
left unfinished once more, do we? Then let's help the LINGUIST list
people get along.

How? You know how.

Ahmad R. Lotfi, PhD
English Dept.
Azad University (IRAN)


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