HOW TO SALVAGE SANSKRIT IN BERLIN

[David Rustin Mellins]

I certainly agree with Andrea and others that the most effective
immediate response to the current crisis is to send letters in
support of the Sanskrit program in Berlin. As a component of a more
comprehensive strategy to redress cutbacks in Sanskrit programs
throughout the world, would it be feasible or helfpul to conduct
studies to investigate whether studying Sanskrit expedites
linguistic capacity more generally? Statistical evidence might well
strengthen the argument for Sanskrit studies.

                          David Mellins



Quoting Andrea Marion Pinkney <amp65 at columbia.edu>:

> Dear List,
>
> I recently sent in my letter, for what it's worth.
> In the interest of moving debate back to the Berlin-crisis, I
> would
> urge other list-members to devote some evergy to please send
> letters of support to the Berlin Indology account.
>
> Sincerely,
> Andrea
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Jean-Luc Chevillard <jlc at CCR.JUSSIEU.FR>:
>
> > Dear Rheinhold,
> >
> > you should remember that LIVERPOOL-INDOLOGY
> > is a general purpose indological mailing list.
> >
> > However important the question you are discussing with Jan
> Houben
> > is,
> > you cannot claim all the bandwidth
> > (there have already been more than 30 messages with the title
> > "Indology and "the disastrous  ideology of the 'pure Aryan
> race'"
> > "
> >
> > If that question has waited several years for a clarification,
> > it can certainly wait for a few more years :-)
> >
> > I, for one,
> > consider that the important topic which was
> > "HOW TO SALVAGE SANSKRIT IN BERLIN?"
> > has been HIJACKED by an important
> > BUT NOT SO URGENT
> > debate
> > between you and JH .....
> >
> > Please remember that there are sometimes priorities ....
> >
> > I won't add anything to that thread
> > (and won't answer any comment you make on my message)
> > because that would be a transmutation
> > of debate into noise
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > -- Jean-Luc Chevillard
> >   (CNRS, Université Paris 7, Laboratoire
> > d'Histoire des Théories Linguistiques [UMR 7597])
> >
> > At 16:18 11/01/2007, you wrote:
> >
> > >Dear Professor Rocher,
> > >thank your for your reply.
> > >
> > >As for conventions of debate, it seems I
> > >underrated the degree to which not replying
> > >to the question has already been developed into an art form.
> > >
> > >Respectfully
> > >Reinhold Grünendahl
> >
>