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Thanks for looking that up, Dave! I'd have had to hobble to the University library as Algonquian materials are not part of my personal library. I used to quote that passage to my Field Methods classes, and it always got a good laugh when I got to the celibacy
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Bob<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF655882"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Siouan Linguistics [SIOUAN@listserv.unl.edu] on behalf of David Costa [pankihtamwa@EARTHLINK.NET]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 13, 2013 2:46 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: What Bloomfield said.<br>
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<div>Hockett in the intro to Bloomfield's Menominee grammar, page vii:</div>
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"Bloomfield was speaking of the tremendous difficulty of obtaining a really adequate of any language, and suggested, half humorously, that linguists dedicated to this task should not get married, nor teach: instead they should take a vow of celibacy, spend
as long a summer as feasible each year in the field, and spend the winter collating and filing the material. With this degree of intensiveness, Bloomfield suggested, a linguist could perhaps produce good accounts of three languages in his lifetime".
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<div>I should point out that Bloomfield didn't do this much, either. </div>
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> Don't feel too bad about this. As Bloomfield famously said, it is almost impossible to document one language in a lifetime, and you have documented two.
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<font face="Arial" size="3">Let me paraphrase what Bloomfield actually said, since I'd have to go to the library to get the exact wording: If a linguist devotes every Summer to collecting field data and every Winter to processing those data,
<b>AND REMAINS CELIBATE</b>, he may "turn to account three languages" in a lifetime.<br>
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Needless to say, I'm not even closing in on two.<br>
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P.S. If I recollect rightly, the original Bloomfield passage is from the introduction to his Menominee Grammar (but I could be corrected on the source. It could be the Ojibwa grammar and the quote could be Hockett quoting Bloomfield.).</font><br>
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