Discussion Details
| Title: | Fund Drive |
| Submitter: | Nick Caffrey |
| Description: | Dear crew,
Having just read your posting about the fund drive today, I am moved to write. I am not in the academic linguist circuit. I did my Master's in Discourse Analysis some eight years ago as a (very) mature student. The linguist list is my only live contact with the discipline I have loved since I was a teenager, as I now live in a very remote place and do not have access to a University library. Just to say that I, personally have no difficulty with the yearly fund drive, nor do I consider it begging. You shouldn't feel that it is, either. The service the list provides is excellent, informative, thought provoking and at times hilariously funny. Your enthusiastic and continuing efforts on behalf of the linguistic community mean that you are quite entitled to ask for funds. I sometimes wonder what would happen if Anthony or Helen were to cease their involvement, as it seems to me that they are the driving forces behind the list. I contributed for the first time last year, and will do so again. I am very glad you are there, linguist crew! Regards Nick Caffrey |
| Date Posted: | 27-Mar-2005 |
| Linguistic Field(s): | General Linguistics |
| LL Issue: | 16.932 |
| Posted: | 27-Mar-2005 |
