CFP: FEL VIII: On the Margins of Nations: correction of e-mail

[Trond Trosterud]

Dear nicholas ostler!

I am about to give a talk on laguage technology and minority languages
here in Tromsö (linked to my project http://giellatekno.uit.no).

Connected to that I would like to give a quote. i believe it comes from
you, in some publicaton I imagine i have seen you have paraphrased
Uriel Weinreich's "a language is a dialect with a fleet and an army"
into "a language is a dialect with a machine-readable dictionary and
basic language technology resources" (as you see, my attempt at
remembering  both quotes are quite inaccurate).

So, do you know what I am talking about? If so, could you send me the
quote (and I'll make it famous here in Tromsø)

Trond

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Trond Trosterud                                        t +47 7764 4763
Institutt for språkvitskap, Det humanistiske fakultet  m +47 950 70140
N-9037 Universitetet i Tromsø, Noreg                   f +47 7764 4239
Trond.Trosterud (a) hum.uit.no          http://www.hum.uit.no/a/trond/
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