Re: Conlang sighting in Mother Jones
| From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 1, 2004, 4:59 |
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Doug Dee wrote:
> The July/August issue of _Mother Jones_ has an article about the linguist
> William Shipley and his work on Maidu [a native language of California].
> It
> says, "Languages came easily to him—as a child he used to invent his own,
> a
> pastime his father considered a sign of impending lunacy. "
Ho ho. That sounds familiar.......:-))))))))
Lovely article. Lots of interesting things on google, too (William
Shipley+Maidu). Going out to do salvage work on native languages used to be
standard procedure in California Univ. anthro/ling. depts.; I wonder if they
still do it. $$$$ IIRC the Smithsonian used to sponsor similar efforts,
perhaps still does. I never did it, but should have. (Well, it would beat
driving a taxi, though I never resorted to that either....)