Updates to Athabaskan notes

[James Crippen]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 14:52, Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:40 PM, James Crippen <jcrippen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:23, Harald Hammarström
>> <h.hammarstrom at let.ru.nl> wrote:
>>> I am writing a review of the 16th ed of the ethnologue
>>
>> As a note to the general Athabaskanist public, we need to write to the
>> Ethnologue editors more. Their stuff on Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit is
>> obviously based on outdated information from older sources. Instead of
>> scoffing we should be feeding them more reliable data.
>
> Good luck - plenty of people have written to Ethnologue with
> corrections and have received no response. It's really unfortunate
> that they are apparently so closed to corrections from experts in the
> families. This problem was brought to Gary Simons' attention at a
> recent meeting and his response was basically that they don't have
> time to do anything with them, so they just ignore them.

*sigh*

Thanks for the discouraging news. Someday we shall prevail?

James