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[William J Poser]

Jess Tauber wrote:
>Yet this was one of the reasons a grant proposal to work with
>the last Yahgan speakers was rejected- the reviewer *knew* that
>the linguistic community had all relevant information about the
>language, and that further work with live speakers was useless.

Well, that reviewer sure wasn't me. I'm amazed that this reviewer's
ridiculous opinion carried weight with the panel. The only circumstance
in which I can see this being reasonable is if the last speaker is
known to be such a poor source that little useful could be obtained,
which I assume is not the case.

Bill