[base ref: http://linguistlist.org/]

1. a link to the Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data

My reaction to that chain of blocks of signs—that’s how linguists refer to words, you know, sometimes they just say c.o.b.o.s. for short. Cobos. Words.–was the imagination of one half of a dialog taking place contemporarily in the Pacific Northwest. I would like you to hear and experiance it the way I did. So read it out, in a high rasp of a voice with wide tonal and pathic fluctuation brought on rapidly. Go.

Hey guys, I say we get together, and write some software, maybe put some of those old computers together for it to spin around on, and put language of the indians on there. I mean, the Native Americans You Have To Say Now, did you know they’re right on the edge about to lose their language forever? I mean, we owe them at least that, don’t we?

Nobody likes the good ol’ indigenous more than good ol’ you, but how much good will a tea party like that do?

Actually, I don’t even know if that’s what they or anybody does even remotely. But I don’t mind assuming that’s the case.

2. a link to Linguist List Plus

You know, it’s the little things. It really is. I mean, yeah, I was thinking Linguist List sounded cool, but I really wasn’t sure, you know. I’m busy. I don’t got time for that. But the ‘Plus’ got me. It’s like they were sending me a message that they were going to do just a little bit more to provide me with the value that one would rightfully expect from a Linguists Club. In the end, that’s what makes the difference. They don’t want me to end up finding some other group of Linguists, so? So they add just a little tiny bit more. It doesn’t take much. It really doesn’t.

One more quick snip-quote so that you’ll come to know why, if I’m so Bridgettely enchanted with the enhanced LL, I’m here now and not over there looking at all the linging berries and longenlarries.

An annual subscription to Blackwell’s Linguist List Plus is excellent value at just $67/£40

Oh, don’t get me wrong; I’m not arguing that that’s not, indeed, an excellent value. I just need it to be a little more excellenty. Like maybe just “excellent plus,” that might do it, I don’t know, I’d have to see.

[I don’t know why I care; this should be totally unnecessary. But it can be tricky through voiceless media–no other “inflection grammar,” as I call it, even comes close–so I’ll just come right out and tell you, forbid you, not to construe this, and by metonomy there and schenexdtoe back, the rest of the site, by extension, a maker-funner. It’s already fun enough. Madder than fat? I just rememebered: I frequently disagree with Noam Chomsky’s ideas, or, not with them so much as their half-bakedness, and yet! (again!) I think he’s superactionhero badax and he will always be a hero of mine for even being able to become a superhero in the field of linguistics. It’s not a discipline that has historically turned out a high rate of ass whuppers over the years. They’re not eve the kind of people that other people know exist. And it was in that kind of hostile environment that Noam became a feared (and laughed at sometimes) man.]

[[Of course, immediately after writting the above and taking my leave of it, I run into this:]]

Here’s what Edward Sapir (considered by many the greatest American linguist of the last century) said:

So, I was wrong. There have been Linguists who’ve known the sweet sound of a superlative spoken of her or himself. And what do they do? They turn right around and pour it on another–a “nother” one, or a “nother” thing, lo que sea:

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and
anonymous work of unconscious generations.

And the biggest scam, as well!