Venezuela to become Linguist-Land??

[jess tauber]

According to a new posting to the LINGUIST discussion list (http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2277.html#2) the government of Venezuela may be willing to fund a project (if the proposal is accepted) to train 250,000 people in linguistics. All I can say is that if it goes through, hot diggity damn! Maybe some of that oil money will be used to help preserve endangered languages? Just imagine the possibilities. Eat your heart out Bill Gates....

Jess Tauber
phonosemantics at earthlink.net