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This is the final newsletter of the winter term, and it’s also the final newsletter of Acting Sesquipeditor Chris Potts. Please keep the news coming to . Spring will see the return of intrepid Pseudosesquipeditor Richard Futrell and Sesquipeditor in Absentia Ivan Sag.
Richard Futrell resigns his position as Pseudosesquipeditor today — he is moving on to other countries (China) and other projects. Richard joined the Sesquipedalian in the fall of 2007, as Assistant Editor. He served briefly as Government Censor in April 2009, and was “promoted” to Pseudosesquipeditor in May 2009. In truth, he has played an essential role in all aspects of production — original reporting, technical issues, good jokes and bad. He will be sorely missed around the Sesqui Newsroom.
A huge thanks to you, Richard, and please keep us posted on your adventures!
If you have pointed your internet navigation software at http://linguistics.stanford.edu/ recently you will have noticed that the whole thing is stunningly redesigned, with up-to-date events and a picture of the Quad that seems to be taken from the Bender Room. Congratulations and thanks, everyone involved!
Alyssa Ferree unearthened a few early 1980s Stanford Linguistics newsletters, News From Linguistics:
Check ‘em out. You too can welcome new arrivals Bresnan, Kiparsky, and Peters, celebrate the birth of CSLI, and thank Tom for becoming Department Chair.
We would like to analogize for a strange linguistic mistake we made in last week’s newsletter. It seems that we printed ‘adjoins’ instead of the phonologically similar ‘adjourns’ in reference to a party, and caught the intention of our own Arnold Zwicky, who wrote us up on his blog. Accordingly, the entire staff will undergo thorough mental examination and thought-reform in order to correct any possible further mistakes in our lexicons.
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There are bound to be bugs and stylistic blunders. Please send reports and tips to Chris Potts.
