22.1787, If: Everyone Who Uses Linguist List Would Give Just a Dollar

Thu Apr 21 15:20:24 UTC 2011

LINGUIST List: Vol-22-1787. Thu Apr 21 2011. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 22.1787, If: Everyone  Who Uses Linguist List Would Give Just a Dollar

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Date: 21-Apr-2011
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Letter from Barbara Partee, Advisor

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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:19:50
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Letter from Barbara Partee, Advisor

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Dear Linguist List subscribers,

Since I spend half of every year in Russia, I've become acutely 
aware of several things that I had been less conscious of when my 
view was just from the U.S. Maybe some of them will be relevant 
to some of you as we try to make this fund drive end!

(i) Linguist List is really international. In some ways it's even 
more crucial for the international community than for the U.S. - 
it really does help make it a small world, where everyone can find 
out about every kind of resource and opportunity. When I first 
arrived at Moscow State University in 1996, access to the internet 
was quite limited (one had to stand in line with your diskette for 
the one computer in the department that could send and receive 
e-mail), but there was already a mirror site of Linguist List 
installed and much used. If you're not in the U.S., this is to you!

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

(ii) Students and faculty in many countries have much less time 
and money than they typically do in the U.S. One of my former 
Russian students this year asked me, with some annoyance, why I 
keep asking the relatively poor academics in Russia to send money 
to the rich U.S. She hadn't realized how many of the graduate 
students at Eastern Michigan University working for Linguist List 
are international students themselves, and that their work and study 
there is a great opportunity. And I also reply that no one is asked 
to give more than they can, and donations can be anonymous (so we 
never know that someone "didn't give"). We know that if everyone 
who uses Linguist List would give just a dollar (which requires 
some group cooperation, since the minimum credit card donation is 
$5), we would raise far more than the Fund Drive target total!

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

(iii) Some countries (Russia is the example I know best) have no 
tradition of "fund-raising" among ordinary non-wealthy people to 
support a common good, as is common in the U.S. for public radio 
and many other good causes. Things for the common good tend in 
many countries to be either government-funded through taxation or 
else supported by rich donors and corporate sponsors. If you're in 
such a country, and you're a linguist, and you've ever benefited 
from Linguist List in any way, I hope you'll follow the example 
of my Russian colleagues who have in the past several years begun 
to donate, in smaller or larger amounts, as they can afford. The 
totals add up quickly enough!

Oh, I have to stop writing! One of my colleagues just phoned to 
ask me to use my VISA card to send in a contribution from her, 
so I should stop and send the money! (She had just seen the urgent 
appeal I sent around this afternoon to the Moscow linguist's mailing 
list - if you have access to a local list, use it to urge all your 
colleagues to donate, quick!)

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

Best wishes to all from one of the Advisors,

Barbara Partee 

This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $67,000. This money will go to help 
keep the List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year.

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http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2011/

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