27.2159, Featured Linguist: Miriam Butt

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Subject: 27.2159, Featured Linguist: Miriam Butt

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Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 10:56:09
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: Miriam Butt

 
Dear LINGUIST List Readers,

We are pleased to present you our next featured linguist, Miriam Butt, for
Fund Drive 2016.

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I was born in Taif, Saudi-Arabia in a military hospital. I was one of the
first (maybe even the first) European babies born there and caused quite a
stir.

My father was an electrical engineer from Pakistan, charged with bringing
electricity to the country. Some of my first memories involve peacocks in the
garden of the royal summer palace --- one of the duties my father had was to
make sure that the royal family was well supplied with electricity!

My mother is a German journalist who interrupted her career to go on an
Arabian adventure and from whom I presumably have a good portion of my love of
language.

I grew up trilingual in German, English, Urdu with a bit of Arabic thrown in,
but thought that that was normal. Indeed, I was astonished when the doctor in
Germany was astonished when I asked him *which* language I should count to 20
in. Checking on counting ability is one part of the overall, standard
examination to determine fitness to go to school in Germany, but one only
needs to be monolingually fit.

(...)

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