16.1086, Disc: Re: 16.894: Abolishing Fund Drive

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Subject: 16.1086, Disc: Re: 16.894: Abolishing Fund Drive

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Date: 05-Apr-2005
From: Elisabeth Cottier-Fábián < hangeli at free.fr >
Subject: Disc: Re: 16.894: Abolishing Fund Drive 

	
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Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:11:12
From: Elisabeth Cottier-Fábián < hangeli at free.fr >
Subject: Disc: Re: 16.894: Abolishing Fund Drive 
 

Fund Drive 2005 is now on! Visit http://linguistlist.org/donate.html to donate now!

Dear all, 

About LinguistList's obvious need for funds, here's what  I may (sadly) 
report, from what I've seen on LinguistList these last three years:

Myself a Senior Lecturer at Paris University (Université Paris 7-Denis-
Diderot), I've been teaching Linguistics at University, here in France, for 
close to 23 years now. 

Apart from being one of my passions, linguistics is what I earn a living 
from. My salary isn't stupendous: barely 2,600 euros per month (approx. 
2,800$). On that sum I'm raising (alone) my three young children; and, as 
you may know, Paris is an expensive city (accommodation, transport, food, 
etc.)

Yet I find it much, much, much better that WE, who benefit from LinguistList 
and its Aladdin's cave, should be the ones with morals and decency 
enough, to give money to support your brilliant site. Need I add I'm deeply 
ashamed to see that, among quite a number of French linguists (from Paris 
universities, mostly), I, apparently (unless there be any anonymous 
donors...!), am the only one on your lists, EVER to send you money...

Yet I couldn't possibly not do so, and every year at that. 

The question is, basically, one of ethics.  

I suggest you give people still a little more time before you eventually 
decide to make this a paying site: all of you regularly checking out on 
LinguistList, PLEASE remember that other linguists, in various parts of the 
world, earn NEXT TO NO MONEY AT ALL. 

WE must show that WE can pull OUR socks up, and stick together, so that 
others with less luck and money can STILL consult LinguistList free of 
charge. 

As usual- best of luck, and a thousand thanks, to LinguistList, one of our 
daily dainties (with plenty of food for thought!).

   Elisabeth Cottier-Fábián, Paris, France. 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics





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