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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:mwmosaka@gmail.com">mwmosaka@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Anniversary" 2009.05.09 (04) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gmail_quote">
<div class="im">R/R wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">I take it this means a new and bountiful source of Ethiopic and Cushitic wrens</blockquote>
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</div><div>to say nothing of a few Omotic and maybe a Nilo-Saharan
thrown in for good measure. AND, considering my job there, one in
Ethiopian Sign Language.</div><div class="im">
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<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">along with the Hawaiian Pidgin one, of course, that has a long way to fly across the Pacific.</blockquote>
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</div><div>Okay, so if my count is correct, I owe you ones in:</div>
<div>* Japanese Sign Language</div>
<div>* Japanese Osaka dialect</div>
<div>* Indian Sign Language</div>
<div>* HCE</div>
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<div>and maybe also</div>
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<div>* Bombay Indian English and/or Bombay Hindi</div></div>
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<div>These are just the ones I think I have actually committed myself
to ... though I could well think of a few others I might be able to dig
up out of my closet (or my neighbour's and friends' closets ... Nepal
Sign Language, perhaps? Goan Konknni? Kerelan Tamil? Newar?)</div>
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<div>And, maybe to make at least ONE of them Lowlandic (okay HCE is
already), I coudl ask my nextdoor neighbour's Belgian girlfriend to do
it in VGT next time I see her ....</div><div class="im">
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<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">We have an Amharic wren up (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/amharic.php" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/amharic.php</a>), without sound so far. I'm still working on transcribing the Tigrinya one from handwriting ... </blockquote>
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</div><div>Well, if you need any help with the Tigrinya, I would be
happy ... in prep for my future job (and given that I have almost 5
months before I have to start) I have been working on my Ethiopian
languages (mostly the Semitic ones, but also Oromo), and so
my Abugida/Fidel is getting quite good ... though maybe not as good
with handwriting!</div>
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<div>I have also set up a filming session with one of my Deaf friends,
so maybe I will try to get him to sign the Wren for me ... so at least
ONE of my commitments will be closer to submission ;-)</div>
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<div>[and, note to our Deaf Scotsman, the new AAU ETHSL&DS
programme seems to be committed to Sign Writing ... so I may just have
to switch over to your side!! ;-)]</div>
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<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Best wishes!</blockquote>
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<div>Thanks ... and for the congrats as well... </div>
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<div>This is clearly a case of what my wife calls "one door closes and
another one opens", as his job came to my attention the day after the
trustees accepted my resignation at Ishara. It promises to be an
exciting adventure ... to say nothing of the opportunity to live and
work on yet ANOTHER continent ;-) My plans as of today are to come
BACK to India in 2 years (the contract at AAU is for that length of
time) ... which will give you time to come up with a longer wishlist...</div>
</div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">mike || U C > || мика || माईक || マイク ሚካኤል</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> (( Michael W Morgan, PhD ))</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">linguist STILL temporarily at large in Bom Bahia</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:mwmosaka@gmail.com">mwmosaka@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Anniversary" 2009.05.09 (04) [EN]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">oh and GEEZ! we almost forgot Ge'ez!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>> </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Anniversary<br><br>Thanks, Mike.<br><br>I hope your enthusiasm won't make the jobs seem too daunting; i.e. don't let your ambition get in the way of execution.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I haven't been able to recruit anyone for the Standard Japanese sound file. Perhaps you can help. (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/japanese.php">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/japanese.php</a>)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A sound file for the Amharic one would be great too. (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/amharic.php">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/amharic.php</a>)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The other day I saw my Eritrean neighbor and buddy walking down the street with another gentlemen that looked like a countryman of his. When he saw me, he said something to his companion who then walked up to me introducing himself and starting chitchatting with me in Hebrew, while my neighbor stood their beaming about the surprise he had for me and about the two of us chatting away in a language he himself didn't understand. The young man turned out to be my neighbor's half-brother who has a Jewish (Beita Israel, "Falasha") mother and spent a few years in Israel.</span> <br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mike, if my numerous interactions and friendships with people from Ethiopia and Eritrea are anything to go by, you are going to have a great time among wonderful, friendly and hospitable people in a beautiful part of the world, apparently the cradle of mankind. I certainly wish you that, for what it's worth. Knowing you as much as I do, you're going to be a hit among the people there. They tend to be very appreciative of foreigners showing interest in, at least respect for their languages, cultures and histories of which they are so proud.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Best wishes!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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