28.1345, A letter from Jacob Herodos, Featured LL staff of the week!

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1345. Mon Mar 20 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1345, A letter from Jacob Herodos, Featured LL staff of the week!

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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:34:43
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: A letter from Jacob Herodos, Featured LL staff of the week!

 
Dear Users of the LINGUIST List,

My name is Jacob. I started working with the LINGUIST List as an intern last
summer, less than a week after finishing my BA in Anthropology, International
Studies, and Spanish here at Indiana University. 

I suppose my place in the LINGUIST List is a bit unorthodox in a few ways.
First, you may have noticed that my background is not exactly in Linguistics
(though I did minor in it). Second, I have no ties to the posting and editing
that make up the core of the List, instead working on a number of our other
projects and lending a hand wherever help is needed. Third, while our staff is
mostly made up of MA and PhD students, I am no student at all, working only at
the LINGUIST List and as a research assistant.

It has been a privilege to work at the LINGUIST List, and I think that my
unusual position here has given me a unique perspective on the work that we
do. As I moved more and more toward linguistics later in my studies, the
LINGUIST List impressed me with its scope and utility. In every other
discipline that I have involved myself in, none has anything even close to the
central hub that the worldwide linguistics community has in the LINGUIST List.
The List makes the world of linguistics, whether in industry or academia,
infinitely more accessible to students and young professionals, and its value
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The LINGUIST List has served the global linguistics community for nearly three
decades, and I hope that it can continue to do so for decades to come. In my
short time here, I have seen the monumental time and resources necessary to
run the List, and the hard work of linguistics students and faculty who
balance their own studies, teaching, and research alongside it. 

Your generosity is what keeps us serving the community. Thank you for your
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Sincerely,

Jacob







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