10.1310, FYI: Sumerian Lexicon, Year 2000, Humor Studies

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-1310. Wed Sep 8 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.1310, FYI: Sumerian Lexicon, Year 2000, Humor Studies

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1)
Date:  Sun, 05 Sep 1999 21:42:26 -0700
From:  "John A. Halloran" <seagoat at primenet.com>
Subject:  Sumerian Lexicon

2)
Date:  Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:36:57 +1000 (EST)
From:  June Luchjenbroers <junel at lingua.arts.uq.edu.au>
Subject:  the year 2000

3)
Date:  Wed, 08 Sep 1999 12:36:02 +0200
From:  "Michal Lisecki" <magura at ares.fils.us.edu.pl>
Subject:  HUMOR ENCYCLOPEDIA; ISHS; Y2K HUMOR in JAPAN

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Sun, 05 Sep 1999 21:42:26 -0700
From:  "John A. Halloran" <seagoat at primenet.com>
Subject:  Sumerian Lexicon

The on-line lexicon of the ancient Sumerian language has doubled in size to
3,766 words.

Version 3.0 also has a new home at:

http://www.sumerian.org/

Regards,

- -----------------------------------------
John Halloran
http://www.sumerian.org/
e-mail: seagoat at primenet.com


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:36:57 +1000 (EST)
From:  June Luchjenbroers <junel at lingua.arts.uq.edu.au>
Subject:  the year 2000


If your VCR has a year setting on it, which most do,
you will not be able to  use the programmed recording
feature after 12/31/99.  Don't throw it away.
Instead set it for the year 1972 as the days are the
same as the year 2000.
>
> The  manufacturers won't tell you.  They want you to
>buy a new Y2k VCR. Pass this  along to all your friends.


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 08 Sep 1999 12:36:02 +0200
From:  "Michal Lisecki" <magura at ares.fils.us.edu.pl>
Subject:  HUMOR ENCYCLOPEDIA; ISHS; Y2K HUMOR in JAPAN

Dear all,

The following mail was posted in the ALAD bulletin. Thought some of
you might find these links useful and/or interesting ;-)


From: Don Nilsen <don.nilsen at asu.edu>

Humor Scholars:
	
If you are interested in the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF 20TH CENTURY
AMERICAN HUMOR: PATTERNS, TRENDS, AND CONNECTIONS, go to:
<http://www.oryxpress.com/scripts/book.idc?acro=HUMOR>
	
If you are interested in the "International Society for Humor
Studies," please go to:
http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/WWW/MathNat/Ruch/SecretaryPage.html
	
If you are interested in the 12th International ISHS Humor
Conference at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan during the year 2000,
please go to:
http://www.edu.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp/ISHS2000/

Don L. F. Nilsen, Executive Secretary
International Society for Humor Studies
English Linguistics, Arizona State Univ.
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
<don.nilsen at asu.edu>; 480/965-7592
FAX: 480/965-3451

tafn mike
_______________________________________________________________
Michal Lisecki, Ph.D candidate <magura at ares.fils.us.edu.pl>
Institute of Slavonic Studies, University of Silesia (Poland)
http://www.cz.top.pl/~magura <magura at cz.top.pl> finger 4 my PGP


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