Re: Anyone conversant in Tagalog here?

On 13 Apr 2007 05:56:45 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
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On Apr 13, 12:42 am, Padraic Brown <elemti...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12 Apr 2007 20:14:42 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"





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On Apr 12, 10:34 pm, Padraic Brown <elemti...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 9 Apr 2007 20:19:10 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"

<gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 9, 10:09 pm, Padraic Brown <elemti...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 8 Apr 2007 21:05:46 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"

I haven't yet come across a college bookstore that's better since it
was taken over by B&N. That includes the U of Chicago and U of
Pennsylvania ones.

College bookstores stock what college professors have chosen for the
students to read. Maybe a couple general sources beyond that. They're
in it to make money from a very limited, but captive, resource.

That's what they are _now_. That's not what they were 30 years ago.

Sure. Nothing is like what it was 30 years ago.

Name a sizeable (new) bookstore in DC?

See above.

No sizeable new bookstore in DC was mentioned.

Bothe Borders and B&N were mentioned. Guess your reading comprehension
isn't what it was 30 years ago.

Surely you don't offer the chains as serious bookstores?

Depends on what you mean by "serious" here. Anyhoo, _you_ asked about
sizeable (new) bookstores, and they are the only sizeable ones in this
area. Whether that's good, bad or indifferent is beside the point.

What you said was

"Sucks to live in NY and Chicago, then! There are significant expat
communities in DC too, and yet I can walk into _any_ sizeable (new)
book store and find basic materials on almost any major language you
care to name from every continent, apart from Antarctica, where the
only native language is He'e (Penguin), and no one's bothered to
publish a reference grammar as of yet. "

Since this now apparently refers to Borders and B&N, you must have a
very peculiar definition of "almost any major language."

Non sequitur. You forgot to include the antecedent in your little
spatter: "Step into Borders or B&N some time. They have quite a decent
stock of basic TY sort of books." There goes that reading
comprehension again.

No, Padraic. I immediately denied the validity of that statement any
more.

Obviously not! But it matters little, really.

They _used to_ carry a very full line of Teach Yourself. They don't
any more. They used to have all of Hippocrene. They don't any more.

Neither here nor there, though this could be a regional or even store
by store phenomenon.

Even the original B&N, at Fifth Avenue & 18th St., where some years
ago I got Li's Manchu textbook (Hawaii), which has no operating
connection with the national chain, no longer has the impressive
variety of obscure-language materials it used to.

Certainly a shame, that.

Their linguistics
section, which used to be just about the only comprehensive one in
NYC, is now rather smaller (but still the best available).

I can't say the linguistics section in the local stores is all that
comprehensive.

For instance, I include Biblical Hebrew among "major languages."

I don't, but I've seen books on it in Borders.

Probably not recently, and probably not more than one textbook.

If by "not recently" you mean in the last month or so.

Certainly not any of the standard reference grammars.

Possibly not. I don't know what the "standard reference grammars" are.

Padraic

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