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Dearest Linguists, As spring sets in, love is in the air... Last week we announced the start of another new feature: The LINGUIST List Dating Service (http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-913.html). We published a questionnaire that would help our specially designed computer program to come up with the best possible matches. The response from the linguistic community was overwhelming; linguists around the world were clearly thrilled about the chance to find their ideal partner in the discipline without having to invest too much precious time and effort that could be otherwise fruitfully spent on musings about Left Dislocation or the No Coda Constraint. Some of the participants agreed to share their romantic experiences with us; please read these heart-warming stories... ********************************************************************** "Bridge Verb", 29, F, from University of Sopchoppy, FL and "Pied Piper", 34, M, from Babylon College, IL Bridge Verb: "My first impression was not that good. I mean, he had this propositional attitude about him, and his morphological boundaries were not too clearly defined. But then, I realised that my selectional restrictions are sometimes too strict, so I thought I would give him a chance. And after our date my opinion changed 180 degrees! I've been through a lot of relationships that didn't work out because there was too much context-dependency, deixis, and anaphora to issues from the past, but Pied Piper turned out to be the most context-free man I've ever met. I would definitely say that we've some mutual feature attraction going on here, maybe even with the prospect of sharing some data!" Pied Piper: "Bridge Verb's small clauses disconcerted me a little bit at first, but I really liked her floating quantifiers. When it comes to women, I have a problem with delayed auditory feedback, but she was very understanding about it, and used labeled bracketing with multiply embedded clauses. I really think she's cool, and I would like to make our meetings cyclic, or at least recursive." *********************************************************************** "Lambda-Operator", 72, F, from Bumford University, UK and "Antiformant", 23, M, from All Saints' School of Modern Languages in Dripping Springs, TX Lambda-Operator: "I didn't know what to expect from this date. My grandchildren warned me that it's a wild world out there, but I knew I finally had to do some move across-the-board. And I don't regret it! Antiformant, despite his habit of multiple wh-fronting and dislike of affix ordering, is a very nice young man, and he even offered to help me move all my bibliography without any procrastination!" Antiformant: "Lambda-Operator made a great impression on me right from the start. She's got a really wide scope, and great illocutionary force. The only thing is, she tended to overuse negative polarity items and intensional adjectives, but I think it had something to do with my sloppy identity. But I think I can say that we do have a strong crossover of interests in our universe of discourse. The complementary distribution of our constraints is also really exciting! I'm looking forward to extending our checking relation." ********************************************************************** Yes, you too can find love on The LINGUIST List Dating Service - our server is waiting to match you with over 17,000 potential mates. So don't be shy! All you have to do is fill out the questionaire from last week's issue (http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-913.html) and send it, together with your donation to: The LINGUIST List Dating Service Springtime Special Dr Amore, 612 Pray Harrold Ypsilanti Michigan 48197 USA You wont regret it! *********************************************************************** To 'subscribe' to The LINGUSIT List Dating Service visit: http://linguistlist.org/donation.htmlMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
Percy, our very absent super-cat, has sent us another postcard from his travels around the world (see below). We know that you will be just as shocked as we are at his flagrant and shameless disregard for his responsibility as mastermind and conceptual leader of LINGUIST List. Did you know that it was Percival who in a moment of inspiration thought that our logo should be a pig! Or did you know that when our servers are overloaded because linguists around the world are doing intricate searches on our site to find that reference that has been eluding them for so long, it's Percy who walks over to the library and sits on our machines to warm them up. He was the first to suggest donuts at our weekly planning meeting, and without his tenacious negotiating skills we would never have been awarded the 'Extra Sofa In The Coffee Room' grant that many a tired LINGUIST editor has taken a nap on. Indeed Percival's revolutionary Siesta Program was a stroke of managerial genius, reducing the productivity of LINGUIST by 15%. We are desperate to get him back! Please make a donation to 'The Get Percy Back Fund' so we can get back to normal - we need your help! http://linguistlist.org/donation.html *********************************************************************** *************************************************** ** To read this and Percy's other postcards, and ** ** see the photos (you must see the photos), ** ** visit: http://linguistlist.org/percy.html ** *************************************************** The Continuing Saga of Percival - The LINGUIST List Cat Postcard 5. Serenkitty Safari Jambo LINGUISTS, I thought I'd send you another postcard from my travels. After Burma I felt the need for some serious adventure, so I decided to head for Africa. To cut a long story short, two planes, a dubious fishing boat and a very long walk later, I made it to the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Wow! I've always wanted to go on a safari (I know I've been on a safari in the true sense of the word since I escaped from LINGUIST), and this has given me a chance to brush up on my Kiswahili - niliumwa na buibui jana! I hope you like the picture; my fellow simba and I are taking it easy after a hard day posing for the tourists. I'm certainly getting lots of adventure I can tell you - I was nearly squashed by a rather inconsiderate elephant, and the hunting is unlike anything I have ever tried before. I must say that while the people I'm staying with are super friendly, their eating habits are a little on the barbaric side! I hope all is sawa sawa with the fund drive - I should think you need some more cash to pay that idiot of a detective you have on my tail. I had a close encounter with him on Zanzibar, but as always my feline cunning got the better of him and I slipped his net. Keep trying. Anyway, hakuna matata, I have to run; the shade in the late afternoon is a 'not to be missed' napping paradise. Umsalimie LINGUIST, kwa heri... Percy. *************************************************************** To donate to 'The Get Percy Back Fund' now via credit card, visit: http://linguistlist.org/donate.html To find out more about different ways to donate, or to pledge now and pay later, see the last message in this issue or visit: http://linguistlist.org/donation.html Thank you for your support.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
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