fox: linguistics-related IPA (linguistics)
fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2003-08-27 10:05 am

today's wisdom:

-- from a professor (a native speaker of English) telling a native speaker of Russian that her handwriting might be sloppy and romanized, but was to be properly cyrillic in his class:

"There's no greater fanatic than a converted fanatic."

;-D

[eta: also, i'm glad to see, in the midst of ongoing budget cuts, mid-season tuition hikes, hiring freezes, and so forth, that the university can afford an entire fleet of new computers in the library. grr, argh ...]

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