ONLINE CHAT: This Saturday, discuss evolution of language with Guy Deutscher, author of The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention. Aug 20, 2005, 11 AM Pacific [GMT -7] at:
http://wordsmith.org/chat

too late for me, I'm afraid. I shall be in bed, hopefully fast asleep.

Bingley

Ah, boogers. I've been out of town for two weeks. Second one of these things in a row that I've missed.

To whomever arranges these events (presumably the enigmatic Anu), I greatly appreciate these things even if I don't get to participate. It sounds a little stupid when I say it aloud or even when I type it, but I do feel that even though I'm absent that the world is a little better place for having had this sort of discussion.