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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">You are right, Bob and all, I did not look up what good ole Leonard actually said. I did remember the celibate part, from when you quoted it in our class!<br>
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My point was, for us (noncelibates), one or two languages is plenty.<br>
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Willem<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF60474"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Siouan Linguistics [SIOUAN@listserv.unl.edu] on behalf of Rankin, Robert L. [rankin@KU.EDU]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 13, 2013 2:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> SIOUAN@listserv.unl.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: What Bloomfield said.<br>
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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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Bob<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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