Cunning linguist (fwd link)

[Nick Thieberger]

Before this gets out of hand I would like to say that I find the title
of this piece to be offensive and have written to tell the author so.
We had a phone conversation which she must have recorded and she has
done verbatim quoting with errors (and there are lots unfortunately)
when I thought she was getting background. I pointed her to our press
room for the conference
(https://sites.google.com/site/icldcpressroom/Home) for clarification
of the detail she was asking about but she clearly has not used it.

Oh well, is any publicity good publicity?

Nick


Nick Thieberger
Assistant Professor
Language Documentation and Conservation
Room 579, Moore Hall
Department of Linguistics
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822



2009/3/4 phil cash cash <cashcash at email.arizona.edu>:
> Cunning linguist
> A look at what it takes to save dying languages
>
> Interview by Adrienne LaFrance
> Mar 4, 2009
>
> On March 12, linguists from across the globe will descend on Hawai‘i to discuss
> the loss of language around the world, and how to prevent it. Chair of the
> Linguistics Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Nick
> Thieberger is one of the conference’s organizers and took time to chat with the
> Weekly about what languages we’re losing and what it will take to preserve
> entire cultures, one word at a time.
>
> Access full article below:
> http://honoluluweekly.com/qanda/2009/03/cunning-linguist/
>