a small plea

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

I don't think that's really what Peter was saying.  To my mind, the point is that many of these posts have nothing to do with dialect. They are simply to relate when a certain word may have been used first.  Those things have value, but not necessarily on the American DIALECT society list.
Fritz
>>> preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU 10/31/03 03:37PM >>>
>Odd that the American Dialact Society should sponsor both of these
>lists, and odd that linguists/dialectologists should be construed
>somehow as "half" of what the ADS is about.

dInIs

>I wasn't going to get involved in this discussion, but here's an
>observation FWIW.
>
>It looks as if there are basically two lists here under one "roof"--one the
>lexicographers and the other the linguists/dialectologists.  The two groups
>seem to have fundamentally different interests, and cross-pollination seems
>rare, with each group mainly ignoring or deleting the other group's
>messages and sometimes getting grumbly about having to use the "delete" key
>so often.  It feels somewhat heretical to say this, but what if the ADS had
>two separate lists?  Anybody interested in both areas could subscribe to
>both, but nobody would have to.
>
>If this is a really dumb idea, please use the "delete" key.
>
>Peter Mc.
>
>--On Friday, October 31, 2003 2:53 PM -0500 Scott Sadowsky
><lists at SPANISHTRANSLATOR.ORG> wrote:
>
>>On 10/31/2003 11:34 AM, George Thompson wrote the following:
>>
>>>In as much as there is no filter now in place...
>>
>>Why not ask people to put some sort of flag --such as "ANTE:"-- in the
>>subject line of posts with antedatings?  That way they could be easily
>>filtered, either to the trash or to a special antedating mail box, by all
>>and sundry.  This is standard practice on many lists.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Scott
>>
>>
>>
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