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linguistlist.org>Dear Linguists, As many of you may know, in addition to our main list, LINGUIST also provides a valuable service for aspiring linguists and seasoned professionals alike, namely ASK-A-LINGUIST. This free resource is staffed by a panel of 63 professional linguists who share their time and expertise with those interested in receiving information about questions related to linguistics and language. You will find ASK-A-LINGUIST at http://linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/. For ease of use, ASK-A-LINGUIST is constructed like the LINGUIST discussion list in which the questions and responses are organized and archived by thread. We feel that by addressing these queries that are relevant to linguistics and language, ASK-A-LINGUIST provides the public with a very direct, thorough, and "user-friendly" source of linguistic information. However, we would love to improve this facility and integrate it into our new dynamic web-site, with all the information stored in our database. One of the beauties of this is that we can classify the questions and answers by Linguistic Sub-Field and Subject Language if applicable, as we do with nearly all other data. The result of this is that you the user can easily retrieve this information at the click of a button, either by browsing and searching ASK-A-LINGUIST directly, or by general searching. For instance, if you were to search the whole site for all the data we have on Semantics, not only would you get all the books, journals, dissertation abstracts and academic papers, but you would also get all the ASK-A-LINGUIST questions and answers related to this field as well. Some of you may remember back a while to when we introduced a new feature to ASK-A-LINGUIST, which we called ASK-A-LINGUIST Tutor. This was hoped to act as a sort of junior model, being staffed by Linguistics majors from the University of Michigan and dealing with less technical questions. Whilst it ran, it proved an invaluable tool for linguistics students worldwide, but unfortunately we have been unable to keep this up. If we reach our fund-drive total of $48,000 this year, we can not only revamp and significantly improve ASK-A-LINGUIST, but we will also be in a position to jump-start ASK-A-LINGUIST Tutor. And that's not all we could do! Another popular service that is in need of a face-lift is Notice Board, the place where you can arrange out-of-town accommodations and other day-to-day stuff. It is to be found at http://linguistlist.org/~notice/. Whilst not the most academic of our features, it gets a lot of traffic from linguists in need of a favour or wanting information on the best area to live, etc., and we feel it is a useful item. So please help us with your support so that we can better serve the linguistics community as a whole. Some of you have done so already, and we thank all of you who have helped us reach our current total of $23,067. 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linguistlist.org>We thought you'd like to hear from some of the students your funds are supporting. So this year each fund drive issue will include a brief paragraph from one of our editors telling you, their sponsors, about their work with LINGUIST. And now, few words from Steve Moran... It's quite amazing to imagine that these words will be sent to so many of you, in so many different wonderful places. Here we are, in Ypsilanti, on the campus of Eastern Michigan University. Let me assure you, it's cold and grey outside - we haven't seen the sun in almost a week! It doesn't matter too much though; the hard work and fun never seems to stop among these great, culturally diverse people that I am so privileged to work with, here at LINGUIST. It wasn't easy in my case, to become part of the crew. In late summer I was in a class with Helen Aristar-Dry, and she spoke once in a while about the Linguist List, and of the National Science Foundation supported EMELD project (http://saussure.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/emeld/). I was instantly intrigued by EMELD, and began e-mailing poor Helen daily. I wasn't going to take 'no' for an answer, so I kept e-mailing, and eventually I just started volunteering! This project sounded too fascinating, and was definitely a step in the direction that I wished to pursue: working with endangered languages. EMELD is a collaborative five-year project of many worldy, beautifully intelligent individuals, who are setting standards for the digitization of linguistic data. EMELD will house data of endangered languages, and be a metadata site for human languages data from around the world. The project is so much more astounding then I can lead you to believe -you'll have to visit the EMELD site and read about it for yourself! So after constant daily begging, and finally volunteering, I find myself now part of the LINGUIST crew. I finished my BA in Linguistics, TESOL, and German Language and Literature here at Eastern in December, and began an MA in Linguistics two months ago. It's a very exciting time in my life, and I owe much of this to LINGUIST, which means I owe this good fortune to all of you. The Linguist List IS those of you who donate, and continue to donate - you are the reason why this site is here, and you are the reason why this crew is here. Neither I nor the rest of my co-workers could ever thank you enough for your continued support - so we will constantly/always do the best we can for you, and for our science. THANK YOU!! Steve Moran To donate to LINGUIST, go to: http://linguistlist.org/donate.htmlMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue