From: pielewe
Message: 44837
Date: 2006-05-31
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Mate Kapoviæ <mkapovic@...> wrote:
[Just one or two minor left-overs.]
On the Susak description I'd written:
> >
> > ... I have always wondered whether there were
> > political factors involved.
Then Mate wrote:
> ... I don't see how politics
> could get involved. I mean, it was just about wrong accents etc.,
Well, in immediately post-war Yugoslavia just about anything could be
political. In addition the porject was financed with money earmarked
for the study of the areas that had been Italian before WWII but now
were Yugoslav. That nay well have provided enough of a political
background for it to be highly sensitive. But that is only a hunch.
I'd written:
> >
> > I have never understood why the persons immediately involved in
this
> > farce do not seem to be bothered by it and the impression they are
> > making, and take no steps to remedy it.
Mate:
> Didn't get you, sorry... Do you mean that others (i.e. MAS) are
ignoring
> Kortlandt? ...
No, it was about the hyper-authoritarian style some of the Leiden
people find appropriate.
Best,
W.