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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2007-04-19 11:45 am

Amharic to Zulu

I ended up doing an on-the-fly inventory of my language-learning titles last night and I've decided I need to buy books on Quechua and Xhosa so I can have all 26 letters of the alphabet covered.

Would anyone be interested in a [livejournal.com profile] princeofcairoenesque eliptony core sample of them? I've got enough for over a year of weekly updates.

[identity profile] richardthinks.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
sure, I'd love to see it; partly because I think it would be a good way of accessing the question of what you look for in such a text (and by extension, what it is you're looking for more generally, as a linguist).

[identity profile] muckefuck.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
In so many cases, the answer would be, "Whatever was less than $7 at the used book store I happened to be in."