Hi Selvarv,

Sorry about being slow responding. I've been exchanging email with Haukur ...
who is in the middle of exams right now, so sensibly not spending much time
with email ... about where this group/course is going. And the results of
that conversation might ... or might not ... change things yet again.

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:48:31PM -0700, Selvarv Stigard wrote:

> However, I went to the site, and so far, everyone is voting to keep the
> list as a mutually assisting study group, and everyone has said "no" on
> this particular issue.
>
> Might I suggest a modification of the possible responses?
>
> o Yes
> o No
> o Yes, in a helpful but not authoritative manner, but cannot commit to
> always having the time on a particular occasion, only for providing input
> when available.
>
> I think that a few of us could qualify for that last one, which could
> create enough for a basis of what you're looking for.

Obviously, I didn't phrase this question too well. I tried to phrase it
as "might be useful to" rather than "qualified to teach" to try to get
people like you, and added the bit about time so that e.g. any Icelanders
still reading the list didn't feel like I was trying to pressure them
to volunteer as teachers.

I can change it if people like. Though the question may be about to become
moot again ... at least for the next couple of months.

> Although I have one other thought - I could ask the professor who taught
> the Old Icelandic class I took at UW if she would be interested in
> subscribing, possibly just saying "we have a few people with a pretty good
> grasp of the language, but if you would be willing to correct us when we
> make a mistake..."

That would be cool too. Though you might want to be careful not to overstate
our level of cluefulness :-) (I've really got to start attempting to read
some _easier_ ON material; I'm feeling completely inept at the moment ...
perhaps I should stop trying to read (decode?!) ON poetry.)

--
Arlie

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