17.909, Astonishment: from Hammers to LINGUIST List

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LINGUIST List: Vol-17-909. Fri Mar 24 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.909, Astonishment: from Hammers to LINGUIST List

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Date: 24-Mar-2006
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Editor Kevin Burrows on entering LINGUIST 

	
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:43:42
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Editor Kevin Burrows on entering LINGUIST 
 


During this last summer, I had been shepherded into the LINGUIST List office by one 
of my favorite professors.  She had suggested that I speak with Anthony Aristar about 
the possibility of me gaining some employment.  At the time, I was working as a 
carpenter for a friend, but the project was coming to a close.  I was looking for some 
other way to pay my bills, but the thought of working for a functioning linguistic 
organization had never realistically crossed my mind.  I had always worked with my 
hands, so the notion of employment in such an academic setting was a little more 
than just a bit intimidating.  I was nervous that I would be unqualified and 
ill-prepared.  It's astounding how right I was!

Within a fortnight (or two) I was put into the position of editor of the Conferences 
area.  Not only was I responsible for the posting of important and prominent 
conferences from around the globe, I was corresponding with established and important 
linguists from various different fields, many of whom to me had only been names in 
textbooks and research before.   The astonishment of such an interaction with those 
that I had esteemed so highly was rather flabbergasting, especially to a boy who 
thought that he was doomed, more or less, to  a life of swinging hammers and carrying 
heavy things.   

Not too long thereafter, I realized the complexity and importance of LINGUIST.  I can 
assure you that I had never had any experience in the maintenance of an academic website.  
And I soon began to understand that the people of LINGUIST had never quite done anything 
of the like before working here.  I was, and still am, so terribly impressed by the 
competence and diligence of all of my coworkers as they, with an incredibly professional 
organization, managed to undertake such an overwhelming onus.  The amazing thing is 
that they actually were the ones who had developed the original site, worked tirelessly 
to maintain its integrity and functionality, and additionally participated in projects 
like E-MELD, OLAC, etc. and constantly projecting more ideas and inventions that will 
forever help the field of linguistics, and many other academic branches to boot.  The 
people of LINGUIST really deserve an incredible amount of applause for all that they have
learned and strive to gain in order to assist the field of linguistics.  They are the most 
hard working and underpaid individuals that I have ever met, and I am terribly proud 
to be a part of that organization (though now, I suppose, I am also in that 
unenviable category of the overwhelmed).

Just being part of such a thing as LINGUIST has been quite an experience.  I still 
am overwhelmed with the capacity of all of my fellow workers, and am absolutely in awe 
of the energy and intelligence of our moderators Helen and Anthony.  This entire 
experience has been quite the inspiration of my life.  I could prattle on and on 
about many of the things that we do here, and about all of the incredible people 
that I have met and befriended, but that could literally go on for quite some time.  
I would simply like to thank everybody involved, especially those of you who 
contribute your time, money, and effort into making the LINGUIST List all that 
it is today, which is something incredible and critical to the world, and one of 
the most important opportunities to me and to everyone of the other talented 
and intelligent people that I work with.

Thanks,
Kevin Burrows
Calls and Conferences Editor 






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