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<DIV>In a message dated 2/19/2004 3:02:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, dparvaz@MAC.COM writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>I'll be there!<BR><BR>Even though there is no linguistics department at UCF, there is a minor<BR>administered through the English department, as well as other folks in<BR>Anthropology and Education who have appropriate backgrounds. Most<BR>linguists accept the status of signed languages as languages in their<BR>own right. Has anyone contacted these folks?<BR><BR>In my experience, legislation of capital-T Truth tends to make<BR>academics dig in their heels. They don't like the used car salesmen in<BR>the the legislature dictating what is a language any more than they<BR>would like to be told that they had to teach creation science. It's<BR>impinging on academic freedom. The way to do this is though rational<BR>persuasion. Has the faculty senate or the Provost given a reason that<BR>can be argued against?<BR><BR>-Dan, who remembers the fight to get ASL accepted for FL credit at his<BR>own institution.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#004080>Thank you!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#004080>I'll pass your suggestions on.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#004080>Alysse</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>