LINGUIST List 17.1111

Wed Apr 12 2006

More: On Poetry from LINGUIST

Editor for this issue: Tetyana Sydorenko <tanyalinguistlist.org>

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Message 1: Helen Aristar-Dry on LINGUIST Haiku
Date: 12-Apr-2006
From: linguist <linguistlinguistlist.org>
Subject: Helen Aristar-Dry on LINGUIST Haiku


Dear Subscribers,

Did you realize how clever your colleagues were--before you read theLINGUIST Fund Drive haikus? This morning I was scanning the haiku pageand chuckling over ones like these:

Plato and Descartes,proved wrong by Hume and Darwin,Survive in Chomsky. --Chris Cléirigh

To change a lightbulb,just rank Light above Same Bulb:Optimality. --Tony Davis

Please be sure to go to the Haiku page and vote for your favorite:

http://linguistlist.org/haikuvote.html

And while you're there, don't miss the ones by the LINGUIST crew. Theymust have had a Fund Drive poetry slam while I wasn't looking, because Ijust found haikus like these:

Your inbox emptyWould make you feel guilty.Please support LINGUIST! -Michael

As night slowly fallsAnd the LINGUIST crew works onLights are expensive. -Jessica

Here in our officeThe coffee pot is boilingTwenty-four hours. -Martin

We all love LINGUISTBut love doesn't pay the bills.Can you guess what does? -Jessica

As you see, these hard-working graduate students are clever enough tosucceed in many professions. But they love linguistics--and they likeworking for you, through LINGUIST List. So they've put a lot ofcreativity, as well as hard work, into Fund Drive this year. Pleasesupport their efforts, and keep the office coffee pot boiling, by makinga donation. This crew deserves your support!

With sincere thanks from all of us to those of you who have alreadydonated...and especially to those who support us year after year.

-Helen