14.60, Qs: 'Primitive Tongue', Software for ESL

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Subject: 14.60, Qs: 'Primitive Tongue', Software for ESL

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1)
Date:  Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:20:02 -0500
From:  "E. O. Batchelder" <ebatchelder at nyc.rr.com>
Subject:  Media: Khant - "Primitive Tongue"

2)
Date:  Tue, 7 Jan 2003 15:31:32 -0000
From:  "Alexander St.John" <guitar7ch at freesurf.ch>
Subject:  ESL Software

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

Date:  Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:20:02 -0500
From:  "E. O. Batchelder" <ebatchelder at nyc.rr.com>
Subject:  Media: Khant - "Primitive Tongue"

In the New York Times Book Review for December 15, 2002, in a review
of _The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia_ by Anna Reid, the
reviewer Benson Bobrick states:

Forty years ago, it was still possible to find whole communities of
the Khant, a west Siberian people, where their language was spoken.
Today, only the elderly keep it alive.  Though a somewhat primitive
tongue (in that it lacks a capacity for abstraction), it is evocative
and vivid, with a poetic particularity all its own.  A photograph, for
example, becomes by analogy "a pool of still water"; a hat, "a
wide-crowned tree that keeps off the rain."

Can someone on this list affirm or refute this assessment?

Eleanor Olds Batchelder


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

Date:  Tue, 7 Jan 2003 15:31:32 -0000
From:  "Alexander St.John" <guitar7ch at freesurf.ch>
Subject:  ESL Software


I am searching for linguistic software to adapt to teaching ESL.  Any
links?

Alexander St.John
Industriestrasse 17
Postfach 12245
CH-6000 Luzern 12


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