no news from the LSA...

[Terry Langendoen]

Press coverage of LSA meetings has historically been nearly
nonexistent, except when some language issue was in the news
around our meeting time, most notably the Ebonics controversy in
the late 90s. We might want to encourage LSA to put out press
releases about topics of interest about the annual meeting (e.g.
workshops and symposia on endangered languages) in the future.

Coverage of the Word of the Year has been going on for about a
decade -- but that's the doing of the American Dialect Society
that meets together with LSA.

Terry

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, phil cash cash wrote:

> it wasn't me that was left out, it was our endangered languages and i
> am sorry too.  glad to hear you all had a good time though.
>
> Philcc
>
> On Jan 9, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Mia Kalish wrote:
>
> > We were having too much fun going to presentations, giving
> > presentations,
> > recovering from presentations, meeting new friends,  . . . And, in my
> > case.
> > . . . talking about revitalization software and who wants to build it
> > :-)
> >
> > A good time was had by all. Sorry we left you out. . . we apologize.
> > <Hangs
> > head humbly>
> >
> > Mia
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Indigenous Languages and Technology
> > [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU]
> > On Behalf Of phil cash cash
> > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 10:36 AM
> > To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> > Subject: [ILAT] no news from the LSA...
> >
> > Greetings ILAT,
> >
> > I am a bit surprised that there is virually no news coming out from the
> > LSA conference this past week.  The only news item I saw today was the
> > "word of the year" which seems a bit trivial but particularly news
> > worthy.  Nevertheless, we should continue to draw attention to the
> > plight of the world's endangered languages.
> >
> > Phil Cash Cash
> > UofA, ILAT
> >
>

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