Eighty bucks!

John F. Schwaller schwallr at potsdam.edu
Sat Sep 25 12:42:04 UTC 2010


The Foundation Course costs $80 to send to Europe via air mail.  The cost
difference between the US and Europe is purely postage.  I will double
check to make certain that those shipping costs are still accurate.



>> Karttunen seems just as methodical as Carochi himself. And
>> unfortunately both cost $80.
>
> Hey!  This is one half of the K/C collaboration that produced the
> Foundation Course.  I can't believe that it costs $80 to reproduce
> and ship our two notebooks. Have you been in touch with Fritz Schwaller?
>
> As for the paperback Nahuatl dictionary I compiled that goes with the
> Foundation Course, it's available from Amazon for about $32.50. It's
> $35 from the publisher, the U. of Oklahoma Press.  (When it first
> came out in paperback, the price was under $20, as I recall, but in
> the publishing world, as elsewhere, everything creeps.)
>
>
> I'm going to stick to the
> 1882 Carochi until I've got enough money to buy either the K&C or the
> updated Carochi.
>
> Do not rely on the 1882 reprinting of Carochi.  There are bunches of
> introduced errors.  I spent months and months many years ago rooting
> them out.  There are way too many, and they are seriously misleading,
> which is why I used the 1645 original as a source when compiling the
> Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl.
>
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-- 
John F. Schwaller
President,
SUNY Potsdam
44 Pierrepont Ave.
Potsdam, NY  13676
schwallr at potsdam.edu


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