On Fri, 10 May 2013 10:06:07 -0500, Stewart Felker <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > For a while now, I've considered creating an academic space for the > discussion of Semitic languages. Conformity to the basic scholarly > consensus about fundamental tenets of Semitic linguistics - e.g. the > existence of Akkadian and Ugaritic - would be strictly enforced. Posts > violating this would be deleted; and those who _repeatedly_ violated would > be banned. I've actually just gone ahead right now and created a place on > the site Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Semitic. For those unfamiliar with the > site, it hosts many of the largest forums on the Internet. For some months > now, I've run a specific forum there for academic Biblical studies, that's > become quite successful (www.reddit.com/r/AcademicBiblical). > > Hope this doesn't come across as advertising - I'm certainly not making any > money for this or anything. I just legitimately think there should be a > very active place on the Internet where all aspects of Semitic linguistics > can be discussed in an academic context.
I know that the discussions on this list can be frustrating, but before people rush over to your forum and abandon this list, I would like people to consider a few points: o Tastes differ in this, but *I* at least don't want to have to visit and log into a bunch of forums (or fora if you prefer) to follow discussions. I would much prefer to have a mailing list. o I know I appreciate the moderators' allowing a wide variety of discussion and not being quick to disallow posts. I fear that if people leave this list in favour of your forum, those of us to *like* this list and wish it to get better will be the poorer off because of it. -- William Parsons μὴ φαίνεσθαι, ἀλλ' εἶναι. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
