Dictionary/phrasebook writing offer

[ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU]

Truly there's a lot of variation in Hippocrene publications.
Their Belarusian dictionary is not good quality (see my
review in SEEJ a few years ago). But the Slovene dictionary
by Komac^, which they republished from the original Ljubljana
version, is worthy of a place on anybody's shelf. They have
made available works on many far-flung languages, e.g. a
dictionary of the Solomon Islands minority language Bugotu
(by the way, does anyone know of a speaker of Bugotu anywhere?).

If Hippocrene is willing to accept help from serious scholars,
I think we should respond.

Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Robert De Lossa wrote:

> The Ukrainian products are almost unusable. But I have talked with the
> owners of the press and there heart is in it. It seems to be that they've
> had amateurs do the work in the past and they themselves are not linguists
>
> >Would anyone like to comment on the quality of the
> >books produced by Hippocrene already?
> >They appear fairly amateurish and not always very
> >helpful to me.
> >Andrew Jameson
> >  If interested, please contact Hippocrene, not me. I'm just posting to try
> >and find people who might want to do this.
> >Lynn Visson
> >Languages are:  Armenian, Bengali, Corsican, Dutch, Gujarati, Hausa, Hindi,
> >French Cajun, Hungarian, Korean, Maharathi, Mongolian, Navajo, PA Dutch,
> >Pushtu, Quebecois, Swahili, Tamil, Telegu, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yoruba.

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