Folder: webmail-ic-2008-11-18/Voynich From stolfi@ic.unicamp.br Mon Apr 4 08:37:46 2005 Message-ID: <47840.143.106.7.33.1112614612.squirrel@webmail.ic.unicamp.br> In-Reply-To: <20050404060957.9FCAC2FEFC@pop1.alphalink.com.au> References: <20050404060957.9FCAC2FEFC@pop1.alphalink.com.au> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 08:36:52 -0300 (BRT) Subject: Re: [Piraha] Re: I'll swap you... From: "Jorge Stolfi" To: jguy@alphalink.com.au > So this morning I burnt a CD with the whole of the > www.rongorongo.org web site, and a long article that > is due in the next issue of the Rapa Nui Journal, > then I looked for your snail-mail address in my Inbox > folder... nothing. Jorge Stolfi Instituto de Computacão, UNICAMP Caixa Postal 6176 13084-971 Campinas, SP - Brazil (there should be a cedilla in Computacão, but my browser gives me "ć" whenever I try to type it...) For my part, I mailed you the book last thursday, finally. (Did you know that "tomorrow" in Portuguese means "within a week or two"?) It was sent by air mail, so hopefully you will get it before june... By one of those curious coincidences, last tuesday I attended my first University Council meeting, and sitting two places away was Dr. Charlotte Galves, director of Unicamp's Language Studies Institute (= Dept of Linguistics and Literature). The name sounded familiar; later I checked and, indeed, she was Daniel Everett's thesis advisor! Since her turf is portuguese linguistics, presumably all she knows about the pirahã and their language is what Daniel wrote in his thesis. Nevertheless tomorrow I will have another Council meeting, and perhaps I will have a chance to inquire about any follow-up studies or whatever. I don't know whether I will be bold enough to ask her opinion about Daniel's latest discovery in Wari-Pirahã phonetics... All the best, --stolfi