Department name

[George Fowler]

Greetings all!

Jouko Lindstedt writes:

>The alternative we have been considering is
>
>    Department of Slavonic and Baltic Studies
>    Otdelenie slavistiki i baltistiki
>
>Please tell your opinion -- how does this (and our old name) sound to
>your ear?

The new name sounds good enough, but better to my ear in English than in
Russian. Why is this an "otdelenie" instead of a "kafedra"? Does it
correspond to the former in a Russian university? Wouldn't that be an
awfully large department?

Our department at Indiana, like most of the major Slavic Departments in the
U.S., is called "Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures", which
offends the linguists but we're steadfast, we can stand it.

George Fowler

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