Dear LINGUIST List Subscribers,

First, we feel the need to rejoice a little: We've reached $50,000! Hooray!! Only
$17,000 to go until we reach our goal of $67,000! Can we make this an unusually short
Fund Drive, wrapping it up in just 5 weeks? With your help, we believe we can. Donate
today to help us sprint to the finish line:

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Second, we're hoping to reach $55,000 by Thursday afternoon in order to release the
extra-special LingQuest Saga chapter, written by our extra-special guest star Trey Jones
of Speculative Grammarian fame (http://specgram.com). We're making pretty amazing
headway towards that goal, with $50,359 at the time of writing. Can we raise another
$5,000 in the next two days?

Perhaps laughter is the best incentive for giving; in that spirit, we'd like to point you
towards some of our favorite SpecGram features. Read and be merry:

-The perennial classic, "Choose Your Own Career in Lingustics:"
http://specgram.com/choose/

-The Linguistic Pantheon, much in tune with our own Fund Drive theme this year:
http://specgram.com/CLXI.2/12.cip.religion.html

-The complete March 2012 SpecGram issue, Volume CLXIV, Number 2:
http://specgram.com/CLXIV.2/

-And, of course, the "Language Made Difficult" podcast, to fill your ears and your heart
with linguistic laughter:
http://specgram.com/podcast.xml

Now that we've whipped our readership into a frenzy of anticipation, scarce able to
contain their impatience for Friday's extra-special SpecGram LingQuest chapter, we hope
we'll be able to reach our $55,000 goal by Thursday afternoon; will you help us get
there?

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Drolly yours,
The LINGUIST List Crew