04/06/2022
It’s here! UT’s (semi?)annual funding drive: 40 for Forty. I guess it’s really “40 Hours for the Forty Acres”. That means it’s 40 hours where you have to endure people begging for donations. I know it’s a little galling, given that The University of Texas doesn’t seem exactly to be short of money.
https://40for40.utexas.edu/giving-day/46023/department/46180
The LRC, however, does need to ask for your financial support. As it turns out, at a modern research institution in the age of cryptocurrencies, self-driving cars, climate change, and… well… all-out war, it can be hard to make the case for supporting a center that creates materials on ancient and underrepresented languages and gives them away online for free. We know *you* see the value in this. But let’s just say it’s hard for an outfit like the LRC to make it on the priority list at a university with such a vast array of fascinating and useful research going on.
In the meantime, as the world seems to be shifting beneath our feet, you might enjoy learning about what the documents of the earliest Southern Slavs (https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/ocsol) and of the earliest Eastern Slavs (https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/oruol) say in their own languages. Or you might like to learn about the oldest documented Germanic language, Gothic (https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/gotol), and how it possibly resurfaced centuries later in the Crimea of all places! Or perhaps you’re interested in the language of the Vikings (https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/norol) traveling through the land of the Eastern Slavs all the way to Istanbul (not Constantinople)... then again, maybe it’s nobody’s business but the Turks’.
But if you happen to make a donation on your path exploring any of these topics, we’d be eternally grateful.
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