OT: "First, get their attention!"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Feb 29 07:42:14 UTC 2012


Headline from a Russian site:

"Udmurt [linguistic] activist opens pornsite in native tongue"


The point is to aid in the preservation of the endangered Udmurt
language by interesting younger Udmurts in maintaining and increasing
their knowledge and use of their dying native tongue, which has been
fighting a losing battle against Russian for the past 500 years.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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