Date:  Wed, 16 Nov 1994 22:16:32 -0800

From:  THOMAS CLARK <tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NEVADA.EDU>

Subject: Re: WWW/Gopher/ftp



Natalie asks for material for these wonderful resources that will be

available even when some of us learn about gif and pif and dif and all

that wonderful stuff of which I am totally ignorant and incapable of

downloading now.

  But I just finished teaching my baby linguistics seminar.

Today we had Naming of the Parts, Ch 13, Finegan: Dialects.

I used tapes and records that date back to the Pleistocene.

How nice it would have been to use something I could have

downloaded that had been taped in a Minnesota mall yesterday,

or at a rock concert in Cleveland last week. I was embarrassed

when I had to tell the students that Florence Trawicky, aged 21

when she was recorded for _Americans Speaking_ is 54 years old this

year! A hard thing for young people when they listen to the

cheer-leading Southern Belle Sorority Sister par excellence on

that record.

  I guess I need new material -- audio and visual -- (And yes, I use

_American Tongues_ as an out of class assignment).

Sigh,

tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nevada.edu