13.916, FYI: Virtual Ling, South Asian Langs, Plural of Euro

Tue Apr 2 19:17:44 UTC 2002

LINGUIST List:  Vol-13-916. Tue Apr 2 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 13.916, FYI: Virtual Ling, South Asian Langs, Plural of Euro

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1)
Date:  Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:23:45 +0200
From:  "Handke" <handke at Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
Subject:  The Virtual Linguistics Campus

2)
Date:  Tue, 02 Apr 2002 13:41:02 +0100
From:  John Peterson <jpeterso at uni-osnabrueck.de>
Subject:  Internet Bibliography on South Asian Languages

3)
Date:  Sun, 31 Mar 2002 19:08:14 +0100
From:  Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
Subject:  The plural of euro is euros

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:23:45 +0200
From:  "Handke" <handke at Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
Subject:  The Virtual Linguistics Campus

Now Online - Your Virtual Linguistics Campus

After more than a year of intensive developement (implementation,
evaluation, and testing), and an average of 80.000 visits per month, we
now officially launch the Virtual Linguistics Campus
(http://www.linguistics-online.de)

The Virtual Linguistics Campus is a non-commercial joint project of the
German universities of Essen, Marburg, and Wuppertal financed by the
German Government. The development and implementation has been carried
out by the Linguistic Engineering Team of Marburg University. Even
though we are still working (and will be), the linguistic material
available at this point in time may be of great help for students,
staff, and researchers in linguistics.

The Virtual Linguistics Campus offers courses in linguistics and many
more. It realizes most options of a real campus: a lecture hall, a
laboratory, a library, and special sections for students and staff. All
administrative facilities necessary for studying linguistics have also
been included: a registration office, an information desk, and means of
communication, such as chat rooms, message boards, and many more. The
techniques of presenting the linguistic material on the Virtual
Linguistics Campus are beyond the scope of conventional methods of
presentation.

Have a look around, visit the ,buildings' of the campus, and feel free
to contact us: info at linguistics-online.de

Juergen Handke, Project Conductor

Prof. Dr. Juergen Handke
Uni Marburg
FB 10
35043 Marburg
+49 6421 2825558

Websites:
http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~handke
http://www.linguistics-online.de

-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 02 Apr 2002 13:41:02 +0100
From:  John Peterson <jpeterso at uni-osnabrueck.de>
Subject:  Internet Bibliography on South Asian Languages

I would like to call the readers' attention to the following homepage:

http://www.southasiabibliography.de/

This bibliography is intended to help researchers of seldom studied or
endangered South Asian languages in locating literature on these
languages. It is also intended to be a means of letting other
researchers know of new work in the field which may be of interest to
them. "South Asia" here includes India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh,
Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Tibet. Included are languages belonging to the
Indo-European, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman and Austro-Asiatic families,
the isolates Andamanese, Burushaski and Kusunda, as well as the sign
languages of the subcontinent.

Unforunately, works on better studied languages such as Hindi/Urdu,
Gujarati, Bengali, Kashmiri, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu,
Malayalam and Kannada cannot be included in the present bibliography.
However, due to my own research interests, Nepali has been included
and works on tribal languages in general, even if these are neither
endangered nor seldom studied (e.g. Santali), have been included.

There are also links to a number of related homepages as well as to
email lists dedicated to South Asian linguistics.

The bibliography, while not complete, has proven immensely popular and
is growing almost daily. If your works are not included in the
bibliography, please send me the bibliographic data and I will include
them as soon as possible.

All the best,
John Peterson
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
John Peterson
FB 7, Sprachwissenschaft
Universitaet Osnabrueck
49069 Osnabrueck
Germany
Tel. (+49) 541-969-4252
Fax. (+49) 541-969-4256
Homepage: http://www.southasiabibliography.de

-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Sun, 31 Mar 2002 19:08:14 +0100
From:  Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
Subject:  The plural of euro is euros

A bit of sociolinguistics for the Linguist List. We're having a
dreadful time in Ireland because the impossible and invented plurals
"euro and cent" have been promulgated by the Irish government to the
media, which broadcasts the "legislative" plurals into everyone's
home hundreds of times each day.

I am on a campaign to get this stopped. I have discovered that it
appears that a misunderstanding of the intent of a European Council
regulation is at the root of this evil. If you've an interest in
sociolinguistic disasters, do visit
http://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/index.html and see one voice
crying in the wilderness trying to do something about it.
-
Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
15 Port Chaeimhghein Íochtarach; Baile Átha Cliath 2; Éire/Ireland
Telephone +353 86 807 9169 *** Fax +353 1 478 2597 (by arrangement)

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