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<div>Trond, you are thinking of Jeffrey Harlig, who in 1993 translated the seven first chapters of _Marijskij jazyk dlja vsex_ (Mari for Everyone! Part I). He may not have translated any more, since he had word processing problems. He was kind enouh to send me a copy. Harlig was then at the Dept of Uralic and Altaic Studies at Indiana University.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Ove</div><br><div><div>On 23 feb 2008, at 23:57, Trond Trosterud wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div>Michael Everson kirjoitti 23. feb. 2008 kello 10.47:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">I think Russia may not have signed copyright agreements, so it is not really an issue. László Fejes is right, you should certainly try to contact the authors.<br>If you decide to translate it, I would consider publishing it in hard-copy.<br></span></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Note that it has already been translated into English. The translator was at least working at Indiana 15 years ago, but I must admid I do not remember his name right now.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The book _is_ very good indeed, and has fantastic drawings. So, I do recommend bot a reprint in Russian, and translations to English and Finnish. (do both volutmes!).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Trond.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">Trond Trosterud t +47 7764 4763</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">Institutt for språkvitskap, Det humanistiske fakultet m +47 950 70140</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">N-9037 Universitetet i Tromsø, Noreg f +47 7764 5216</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">Trond.Trosterud (a) hum.uit.no <a href="http://www.hum.uit.no/a/trond/">http://www.hum.uit.no/a/trond/</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; ">----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "><br><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div></div> </div><br></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Minion Web'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Minion Web'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Ove Lorentz, Assoc.Prof., Linguistics., N-9037 Univ. of Tromso, Norway</div><div>Tel +47 776 44267. 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