LINGUIST List 17.1130

Fri Apr 14 2006

Introducing: The LINGUIST Title Generator

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

Directory         1.     linguist, To Help With a Pesky Task
         2.     linguist, Messages from our Subscribers
Message 1: To Help With a Pesky Task
Date: 14-Apr-2006
From: linguist <linguistlinguistlist.org>
Subject: To Help With a Pesky Task


Dear Subscribers,

Are you tired of trying to come up with a clever title for your latestpublication? Are you too busy to ponder what to call this semester'sterm paper? Then The LINGUIST List Title Generator (TM) is for you!

http://linguistlist.org/title-generator.html

Designed by one of our talented programmers (and with the help of thefruitful minds of other LINGUIST crew-members), our Title Generator (TM)generates over 225,000 original linguistics titles.

Some of the many intriguing titles include:

"New insights into speakers and hearers: An innovative contribution inmiddle-class speech is fundamentally flawed"

"What about expletives: A controversial direction in Nunggubuy lackssubstantial evidence"

"The case of covert movement: A tax-deductable exploration in Micronesiais really wrong"

And our personal favorite:"A heart-warming thought experiment: donating to LINGUIST"

Donate now to help keep our crew enthusiastically designing useful andexciting new services for you! :)

Sincerely,

The LINGUIST Crew

P.S. Please be sure to credit The LINGUIST List Pig for any titles youuse. If a LINGUIST List Title Generator-generated title appears in print,you are required by law to donate $5,000,000 to LINGUIST every year forthe duration of your academic career.





Message 2: Messages from our Subscribers
Date: 14-Apr-2006
From: linguist <linguistlinguistlist.org>
Subject: Messages from our Subscribers


Our subscribers often send us their praise, but there wouldn't be theLINGUIST as we know it without wonderful subscribers like you. When youthank us, we thank you! Your praise gives us more energy andcreativity!

We have posted several messages from subscribers yesterday, and here aresome more encouraging messages we received:

"We all certainly appreciate LINGUIST List--as I said in my message tothe department, for me one of the big things is how it helps linguistsall around the world be connected and be part of the linguisticcommunity in ways that used to be absolutely impossible. When I teach inRussia every spring (or almost every spring), I can really feel it!!"

"I am writing to remark once again about the LINGUIST List. It amazes methat in the short time since putting my abstract on your site, I havebeen contacted by 4 people from Ottawa, Canada; Nice, France; Antwerp,Belgium; and Dublin, Ireland. I was enthused when I found out about theservice you provided to other linguists through your LINGUIST List. Iwas also surprised I had never heard of you before coming toAlbuquerque. Now, I am even more thrilled with your site. It shows thatyour people's insight into making knowledge about certain languagesknown and available to others is really working. Hats off to you forproviding such a great service."

"Many thanks for having taken so much care for my little review! Andsorry again that my formatting has caused so many problems! It is sogood to know that there is someone out there at Linguistlist whohandles problems in such a professional way! Great! Many, many thanksagain and best wishes."

"The answers I got for my query have turned out to be very, very richand helpful. We as linguists are really lucky to have such a wonderfulsite to communicate. Thanks a lot!"

"LINGUIST List has published our announcement - we have never had somany registrations (and congratulations) in a single day! Thank you verymuch indeed: you have done us a great service, and, I hope we shallprove, to linguists in general."

"I think that the LINGUIST List is an important source of informationin the field. It certainly helped me to keep up to date about what isgoing on in the field, and being up to date in my field certainly helpedme to find and get interesting jobs. So please continue."

"I used the Web interface to announce the Workshop...I found this "Callsand Conferences Area" very usefull, simple and powerfull, andcongratulate the LINGUIST List staff for providing this service."

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