21.1049, We: Need YOUR Help to Continue

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LINGUIST List: Vol-21-1049. Wed Mar 03 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 21.1049, We: Need YOUR Help to Continue

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Date: 03-Mar-2010
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Your Donation Efforts Have Kept Me Here
2)
Date: 03-Mar-2010
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Your Donations are Revolutionizing Linguistic Mapping

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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:19:10
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Your Donation Efforts Have Kept Me Here

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Dear Subscribers,

As I enter my fourth year at the LINGUIST List, I look
back on the history of letters that I've written you. I've
shared the story of how I became interested in languages
in high school, and pursued that interest in college. I
also told you how, with some luck, I found my way to The
LINGUIST List's non-for-profit publication, staying afloat
through donations made by readers like you:

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

While it may have been luck that landed me at The LINGUIST
List, it is undoubtedly the efforts of readers like you that
has kept me here.  Without you donating your hard-earned cash,
we wouldn't be able to provide the services you've come to
expect.

'Services?' you ask.

Why, yes! If you're in linguistics and you're looking for books,
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your first stop, whether by visiting our website, reading your
email, checking an RSS feed, or even just dropping by one of
our Twitter profiles. And I am one of the graduate students who
power this place.

As linguists, we do everything we can to bring as much useful
information as possible to the linguistics community - but we
need YOUR help to continue to do that.

The good news though, is that it is easy to help out!

Simply clicking this link:
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will take you to the donate page. There you can do your part
to ensure that we continue to fill your inbox with everything
you need to be a linguist in the 21st century.

Even if you can only send $25 or $50 our way, you will be helping
us out in a BIG way. You contribution helps support another year
of The LINGUIST List publishing more of the linguistics 
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Won't you help us out?

Sincerely,

Hunter Thompson Lockwood
The LINGUIST List
Student Editor=20

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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:19:14
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Your Donations are Revolutionizing Linguistic Mapping

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Dear Subscribers,

---Your donations are revolutionizing linguistic mapping---

Linguistic data are like ingredients for a meal. It's all
about how you put it together.

Quite often, linguistic data is still served raw in figures
and sentences. As we learn more and more about the technical
tools at our disposal, we learn how to spice it up with graphs
and illuminating tables - and nowadays, some of it can move in
animated graphs, audio-clips and movies.

While a paper map of language distribution is infinitely more
delectable than written geographical directions, it's still
a bit stale. That's why Stockholm University and LINGUIST List
got together in the LLMAP project a few years ago, to create a
new standard for linguistic mapping - interactive maps that
could be overlayed on top of each other and filled with as much
information as we could put in there - editable by researchers
to produce just the kind of map they needed at any given moment.

I've been team leader, together with Hunter Lockwood, for the
LINGUIST List branch of LLMAP for half a year now, and we are
constantly struck by the revolution in linguistic mapping we
see before us, and the interest the LLMAP project evokes in
field linguists we talk to. Soon, the editing facility will be
up, and anyone will be able to edit any map in our steadily
growing database of geospatial information.

I want to thank you for your generous support to LINGUIST List
in the past, that has made it possible for us to build this tool
for the research community.

And we really need your donations this year as well, in order
to keep going. And while you're thinking about how much to
donate, why don't you step in and have a look at LLMAP:

http://llmap.org

And check out, for instance, how our global climate and
geographical terrain maps interact with the distribution of
different languages - or how different theories of the language
distribution in Mexico matches up. Or something else that catches
your fancy.

And that's just the appetizer...

Donate at: https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm=20

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