{"id":326,"date":"2007-04-05T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=326"},"modified":"2007-04-05T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T19:08:00","slug":"why-i-dont-like-linguist-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/why-i-dont-like-linguist-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I don&#8217;t like Linguist List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/linguistlist-779663.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/linguistlist-779632.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistlist.org\">Linguist List<\/a> are doing their annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguistlist.org\/donation\/reasons.html\">fund-raising<\/a> at the moment.  Although it&#8217;s somewhat politically incorrect among linguists, I must admit I don&#8217;t really like it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think Linguist List are doing a terribly good job.  Their digest format is hard to split, and I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re great at filtering away irrelevant information.  Sure, I agree that a moderated mailing list is necessary, but I think their set-up is wrong if that takes 18 student editors.  They try to defend it with all the great stuff they&#8217;re doing on their website, but I find it confusing and old-fashioned, and I&#8217;d personally be happy to have only the mailing-list and a archive searchable with Google.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s really necessary to have a lot of student editors, I think the grants should be available world-wide; I&#8217;m sure a mailing list can just as easily be moderated in Denmark, Brazil or China as in the US.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m increasingly of the opinion that it&#8217;s all a ploy to let people across the world finance students at Eastern Michigan University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linguist List are doing their annual fund-raising at the moment. Although it&#8217;s somewhat politically incorrect among linguists, I must admit I don&#8217;t really like it. I don&#8217;t think Linguist List are doing a terribly good job. Their digest format is hard to split, and I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re great at filtering away irrelevant information. Sure, I agree that a moderated mailing list is necessary, but I think their set-up is wrong if that takes 18 student editors. They try to defend it with all the great stuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}