LINGUIST List Special Issue: Both Sides of Fund Drive

Fri Mar 30 16:45:57 UTC 2007

LINGUIST List Special Issue: Both Sides of Fund Drive 

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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-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:08:07
From:  linguist <linguist at linguistlist.org>
Subject: Check out Fun Ddrive Friday! 

Dear Subscribers, 

Welcome back to the second week of Fun dDrive Friday!

As you may have noticed last weekend, every Friday during our annual
fund drive, we temporarily alter the home page to showcase the new fun
features we create to help encourage your donations.

This Friday, be sure not to miss the Linguist of the Day, a popular
Fund Drive feature since 2006!  This Friday will be a personal
biography from Noam Chomsky.

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

We would also like to bring your attention to our three newest
features unveiled this Fun dDrive Friday.

The second issue of our Superhero Comic Book Movie, The Adventures of
C-Commander and the Disambiguator, is now available!  Watch the flash
movie to follow The Disambiguator and C-Commander in their struggle to
return the LINGUIST List sun back to the linguistics community.

http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/background-story/comic2.cfm

Who said you can't whistle while you work?  Listen to this year's Fund
Drive Theme Song!

http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/theme-song/musicvideo.cfm

Lingoku: Try your hand at our Sudoku-inspired puzzle!  The objective
of the game is to fill in the 3x3 grid so that every row, every
column, and every box contains every vowel.  Submit your completed
puzzles, and prizes will be awarded to the five people who solve the
most puzzles within the next week!

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

Prizes for Lingoku:
 1. a copy of Agreement by Greville G. Corbett,
2006, Cambridge University Press, donated by Greville G. Corbett
 2. a one-year subscription to the International Journal of Bilingual
Education and Bilingualism, donated by Multilingual Matters
 3. a copy of Convert Text to Phonetic Spelling (USA accent), donated by Tom
Zurinskas 
 4. a copy of Studies on Modern Phonetics and Phonology by Lu, Jilun & Wang Jialing. (eds.) 2004. Tianjin: Tianjin Academy of Social Science, donated by Gang Gu 
 5. a one-year subscription to Linguistics & Science Fiction Newsletter, donated by Suzette Haden Elgin

Periodically check the site over the weekend to play the games and see
what else is new.  Please remember to DONATE when you visit our site.
Fund Drive is the only time of year we ask for your contributions to
help keep our services available and free.

Enjoy our Fun dDrive pages today and throughout the weekend!

Sincerely,
-The LINGUIST Crew
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-------------------------Message 2 ------------------------ 
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:56:01
From:  linguist <linguist at linguistlist.org>
Subject: A Message from Advisor Dr. Ahmad Lotfi 

**The LINGUIST List Advisory Board comprises 31 highly qualified
linguists diverse in both location and linguistic specialty. We are
very grateful for their thoughtful advice and assistance over the
years--LINGUIST wouldn't be the same without them!

     http://linguistlist.org/advisors.cfm

Please continue reading for a message from Dr. Ahmad R. Lotfi, one of
our advisors.**

Dear LL readers, 

Do you know a linguist who's ever made his or her pile out of
linguistics? I don't. We linguists seem to be doomed to die poor: no
businessman, industrialist or government has ever found a way to
become fabulously wealthy or powerful with our help. Should I put :)
or :( here? Difficult to say.

And not all non-linguists who've made a lot of money are more
intelligent than the average linguist. Don't believe it? Standardized
IQ tests are there just to check this.

Doing linguistics is not the easiest way to make a living either, is it? 

Then why are we here? Why did we decide to become linguists? 

I'll tell you why: 

				WE LOVED TO!!

And why are you reading this message right now if LINGUIST offered you
no help in doing linguistics? You haven't subscribed to it for fun,
have you? Never! You won't find much here, for sure.

Then donate to LINGUIST in the name of love. 

We are all in debt to it for the free service we receive. But more
importantly, we feel morally obliged because of the decision (our own
decision made freely and wisely) to become linguists. Let's remember
it whenever we sign in.

Regards, 

Ahmad R. Lotfi 

Ahmad R. Lotfi, Ph. D 
Department of the English Language, 
Azad University at Khorasgan Esfahan, IRAN. 
Mail: arlotfi at yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/arlotfi/lotfipage.html 

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