Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Athel Cornish-Bowden Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Dell Hymes died (13/11/2009) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:37:16 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:37:19 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="69d8ba9429fef4ff8ea6c0653cf5988c"; logging-data="2418592"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ihwXwKYp9reF1Yt3EKoUSXGu0UAypab8=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:kV8qD/x4X0nrdtyjc0JcYqYZ89s= Bytes: 1689 On 2024-11-13 11:29:38 +0000, Christian Weisgerber said: > On 2024-11-13, Ross Clark wrote: > >> More detail here: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Hymes >> along with "Sexual harrassment allegations" (a first for this series, I >> think), and what looks like a malicious cacography in the first line of >> the following section. > > There was a bit more vandalism there. ... Fixed. While I suppose it's true that there was sexual harrassment the sources given don't seem to be reliable. I have never seen the Daily Pennsylvanian, but back in mists of time I sometimes read the Daily Californian -- interesting enough, but not what I would regard as a reliable source. -- Athel cb