LINGUIST List Special Issue: What's happened to LINGUIST?

Fri Mar 23 17:02:16 UTC 2007

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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 
From:  linguist <linguist at linguistlist.org>
Subject: Information on Fun dDrive Friday

Dear Lingliters,

L adies and gentlemen: 
I t's that time of year again - - Fund Drive! 
N agging isn't our style; we try to 
G o the extra mile and entertain our 
U sers with games, puzzles, and 
I nteresting stories 
S o awesome 
T hey can't help but donate! 

Welcome to The LINGUIST List "Fun dDrive Friday"!  Every Friday during
our annual Fund Drive, we present our users with an alternative
LINGUIST home page.  As many of you already know, this year's theme is
Superheroes. For your enjoyment, we have created a fresh look for our
homepage featuring the zany work of our crew!

Showcased this year on our Fun dDrive Friday main page is our Linguist
Superhero Comic Movie, The Amazing Adventures of The Disambiguator and
The C-Commandor!  Follow our heroes as they battle the wicked
precriptivist wiles of The Degenerative Gramma'.  New issues of the
Comic Movie will be released as our Fund Drive progresses, so ... Stay
Tuned for the next Adventure of Our Heroes!

After you have viewed The Adventures Comic Movie, see who the REAL
linguistics superheroes are by reading the short biographies on the
Featured Linguist of the Day!

Keep your suspense sky high by submitting your very own LINGUIST
acrostic!  You can also participate in the acrostic contest by voting
for your favorite poem!  We are offering prizes to inspire your
creativity:

The top 10 winners will each receive a copy of 
- Tongue's Palette (Poetry by Linguists) (2004).  Andrew Sunshine and
Donna Jo Napoli (Eds). This great prize was donated by poet Lise Menn,
who will also autograph one of her poems for each winner!

The first place winner will also receive 
- a one-year subscription to the online version of Labov's The Atlas
of North American English, donated by Mouton de Gruyter.

The second place winner will also receive 
- a hard-cover copy of The Language Imperative authored and donated by
Suzette Haden Elgin.

The third place winner will also receive 
- The Studies of Foreign Languages and Culture , volumes 1, 2 and 3,
authored and donated by Gang Gu.

Check out the acrostic examples written by our crew. Like a particular
poem by the crew?  Guess who wrote it by reading the crew's hometown
tours!

Navigate through these - and other Super pages - via The Pig Cave,
home of the Superheroes! Please feel free to click away in The Pig
Cave to find out all this year's Fund Drive has to offer. (Hint: look
for these items: key, question mark, pigmobile, stereo speaker, comic
book, flying superhero, and, of course, the donate sign!) This year's
Fund Drive is scheduled to until April 20th, but you can help end it
even sooner by making a donation to help us reach our goal of $55,000!
Remember, even a small donation really does make a difference.

All play and no work making you dull? Revivify at the real LINGUIST
List homepage.

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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/ 

There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST!

You can donate right now using our secure credit card form.

Alternatively you can also pledge right now and pay later.

For all information on donating and pledging, including information on
how to donate by check, money order, or wire transfer, please visit:

http://linguistlist.org/donate.html

The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Eastern Michigan University
and as such can receive donations through the EMU Foundation, which is
a registered 501(c) Non Profit organization.  Our Federal Tax number
is 38-6005986.  These donations can be offset against your federal and
sometimes your state tax return (U.S. tax payers only).  For more
information visit the IRS Web-Site, or contact your financial advisor.

Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that they will
match any gift you make to a non-profit organization.  Normally this
entails your contacting your human resources department and sending us
a form that the EMU Foundation fills in and returns to your employer.
This is generally a simple administrative procedure that doubles the
value of your gift to LINGUIST, without costing you an extra penny.
Please take a moment to check if your company operates such a program.

Note: the donors' names are appended to every fund drive message sent
to the main list.  You can also see the list of all donors by clicking
here:

http://linguistlist.org/donation/contributors2007.html

Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!

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