Apology

[Mike Cleven]

William J Turkel wrote:
>
> I am sorry if I offended anyone in my recent query about Chinook Jargon
> courses.  By calling a university course "ideal," I was referring merely
> to my personal need to satisfy doctoral program requirements for
> language courses.  I would much rather learn Chinook Jargon than
> German.  I meant no disrespect to the people that speak the language,
> native or otherwise.

Well, in that case, it's conceivable that you could work for credit in
the Chinook Jargon through a graduate linguistics department, and I
submit our own Barbara Harris' University of Victoria Linguistics
department, of which she is the Graduate Admission Director (I'll
forward you her e-mail address).  I don't know how graduate programs
work, but maybe you can understake a for-credit paper or course under
Barbara (herself a specialist in the Jargon, with publication as such)
that included a sojourn at Grande Ronde OR studying under Tony and other
Jargon speakers.  It's not as if anyone _shouldn't_ be wanting to do
graduate work in the Jargon, even as an ancillary language; or that
someone so accredited shouldn't be available to teach courses in the
Jargon at the university level!  Of _course_ you should try and get
graduate accreditation for the Jargon; why not?

I note that you're at MIT; another participant on the Jargon group is in
the graduate linguistics department at NYU; I don't know if the credit
arrangement I suggested vis a vis Barbara at U.Vic is workable there,
but it's a lot closer to Mass than BC or OR is.