Re: The peculiar and the profound

Hi Justin,

   Do any of these conferences you mention (in BKK & Chiang Mai) keep websites?

   I am genuinely unaware of the conferences you seem to describe
--although the propaganda surrounding the Thai Princess's annual
linguistics conference does reach me in my distant/dismal garret.

   Neither David nor Harald knew of the MPI Linguistics conference
coming up in Jakarta; I am not interested for the simple reason THAT
IT IS IN JAKARTA --but it is a true S.E.A. language conference.  More
interesting than the AAS conferences, to be sure.

   I regard the IABS with unease; it will surely be another four years
(at least) before it's in this neighborhood.

> I will be at the Burmese Studies conference
> this year for example...

   Uh... which conference is that, exactly?

> David Wharton, Kate Crosby, and Harald Hundius are all very
> smart and wonderfully gracious people.

   You really have to watch yourself with all this effusive praise; you
praise *EVERYBODY* to the sky, Justin.  Sooner or later the laws of
supply and demand with catch up with you and your praises will be of a
diminishing value.

> As for the National Anthem lyrics, I think I have that
> somewhere. I will look through my files tonight and try to
> find something. That's a good idea.

Great --please pass them on to me if you can.  Maybe I'll translate
them into Pali (that would be popular with the local authorities!).

P.S., I just applied for a UN position (that I was "encouraged" to
apply for from someone on the inside) --if I land one of these jobs it
will change my pace of work considerably.  Probably bad news for my
would-be contributions to Pali studies, but a relatively massive
salary that I could use to (e.g.) order some of these books you keep
telling me about.

E.M.