LINGUIST List Special Issue: Fun Ddrive Friday

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LINGUIST List Special Issue: Fun Ddrive Friday

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>
 
Reviews: Laura Welcher, Rosetta Project  
       <reviews at linguistlist.org> 

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Fund Drive FLASH: We still need $17,886 to end Fund Drive.
If you have not donated, please visit http://linguistlist.org/donate.html
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Current Top 5 Schools in LL Grad School Challenge:
1. Stanford University   	                $1630
2. University of Massachusetts at Amherst 	$1547
3. University of Washington 	                $1234
4. University of California, Santa Barbara 	 $771
5. University of Toronto 	                 $760

To see the full list, go to:
http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/allschools.cfm

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-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:43:46
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: New Puzzles and Games! 
 
Welcome back to Fun dDrive Friday!  This is now the third Fun Friday,
the day we alter The LINGUIST List homepage to showcase Fund Drive
features to encourage your donations.

This week we have more than ever to introduce to you.  Our popular
Linguist of the Day is now featuring Larry Hyman, but be sure to
revisit the other interesting submissions released earlier this week
from Walt Wolfram and Raymond Boyd.

http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/linguists/LinguistOfTheDayIndex.cfm

This week give a warm welcome (or a coldhearted boo!) to the newest
addition to our LINGUIST Directory of Linguists, Degenerative Gramma!
She recently submitted her new book to Reviews and has linked to her
personal page from our public Directory. Read what one of our esteemed
reviewers had to say about D.G.'s new tome, "Every Rule in Every
Language: How to Better Your Native Speaker Instincts":

http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-01017.html

The third issue of our comic book movie (The Amazing Adventures of
C-Commander and The Disambiguator) will be released this Friday!  Tune
in to see what happens next!  Missed earlier issues?  The previous
movies can be viewed via links found on the same page.

http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/background-story/

This is a very special Fund Drive Year to us here at the LINGUIST
List.  According to the Chinese calendar, this Fund Drive is in the
Year of the Pig.  Pigs have been the longtime mascot of our
organization.  The powers of our Linguistic Superheroes, C-Commander
and the Disambiguator, were bestowed upon them by the power of the
Super Pig.  In honor of this fateful year, we are holding a special
drawing in our Year of the Pig Contest!  If you were born in any Year
of the Pig (1983, 1971, 1959, 1947, 1935, 1923, or 1911), simply email
your name and birth date to Ania Kubisz at ania at linguistlist.org.

http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/puzzles-games/year-of-pig.cfm

We will be giving away four copies of Phonetic and Phonological
Studies on Tianjin Dialect Beijing: Beijing Lu, Jilun (ed.) 2004 as
prizes to four lucky people determined by a blind drawing.

Don't forget or revisit our games and puzzles.  Submit an acrostic for
the poetry contest or try our new, more difficult Linguko puzzles.

http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/puzzles-games/

As you play the games and read our features, please remember that the
services we offer all year long are free, but maintaining the site
isn't!  Please use our services exhaustively and play our fun games
over the weekend - and please donate!  A warm thanks to all have
already donated. We appreciate your help in keeping our organization
up and running!

http://linguistlist.org/donation/

Sincerely,
-The LINGUIST Crew 


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This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $55,000. This money will go
to help keep the List running by supporting all of our Student Editors
for the coming year.

See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out our
Fund Drive 2007 LINGUIST List Superhero Adventure for some Fund Drive
fun!

http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/ 

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