7.13, Qs: Linguistics?,Phonemic Spelling,Folia Linguistica Hist.

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-13. Thu Jan 4 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  96
 
Subject: 7.13, Qs: Linguistics?,Phonemic Spelling,Folia Linguistica Hist.
 
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Date:  Tue, 02 Jan 1996 15:57:53 MST
From:  parkinsond at yvax.byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Subject:  Linguistics Needed!
 
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Date:  Tue, 02 Jan 1996 11:14:48 +0100
From:  hartmut at ruc.dk (Hartmut Haberland)
Subject:  Re: 6.1790, Disc: Phonemic Spelling
 
3)
Date:  Wed, 03 Jan 1996 18:24:05 EST
From:  amr at CS.Wayne.EDU (Alexis Manaster Ramer)
Subject:  Q: Folia Linguistica Historica
 
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Date:  Tue, 02 Jan 1996 15:57:53 MST
From:  parkinsond at yvax.byu.edu (Dilworth B. Parkinson)
Subject:  Linguistics Needed!
 
A year or so ago it was noted on LINGUIST that the army uses the term
"linguist" for job classifications involving interrogation, translation,
voice intercept, etc., i.e. jobs involving knowledge of another language,
but not necessarily involving any other background in the field of
Linguistics.
I thought you might be interested in the poster that recently appeared
around our university, advertising the fact that the Naval Reserve Unit in
our area currently has openings for persons who speak Bulgarian, Burmese,
Cambodian, Kurdish, etc. etc.  The large bold heading on this poster reads:
 
        LINGUISTICS NEEDED
 
Although this is most likely a typo, it would be interesting if the word
"linguistic" had actually developed the meaning "a person who speaks a
language well" in military circles.  You know: "He's a really good
linguistic." and "You'd better be careful with your grammar.  There's a
roomful of linguistics in there."  So although I'm sure most of you agree
that Linguistics is/are needed, I will leave it to my fellow linguistics to
figure out all the ramifications.
Dilworth Parkinson
 
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Date:  Tue, 02 Jan 1996 11:14:48 +0100
From:  hartmut at ruc.dk (Hartmut Haberland)
Subject:  Re: 6.1790, Disc: Phonemic Spelling
 
Is Japanese hiragana spelling phonemic? The test case would be
potential minimal pairs like kuu 'sky' - kuu 'eat' where uu in the
first case usually is considered to be a long u but a sequence u+u in
the second, a difference marked in some versions of standard Western
transliterations but not in hiragana. Of course, mora pitch is not
marked in hiragana either, so the spelling is somewhat defective at
any rate, but at least kuu 'eat' is HL and kuu 'sky' is either HL or
LH according to my dictionary, so there should be a chance to have a
real minimal pair here (the existence of which I doubt, though).
Hartmut Haberland
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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 18:24:05 EST
From: amr at CS.Wayne.EDU (Alexis Manaster Ramer)
Subject: Q: Folia Linguistica Historica
 
Sorry to bother everybody, but does anyone know how to get a hold of
the editors of the same; their email address appears to have changed
and I can't seem to locate the new one.
 
Alexis MR
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