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| 1 | General Proverb Studies / Introduce Yourself / Greetings on: 02.06.06 at 03:51:12 |
| Started by George W. Maschke | Post by George W. Maschke | |
| I'm George Maschke, and I recently created Paremiology.org. Earlier this year, I completed a proverb-related doctoral dissertation, Proverbial and Idiomatic Language in a Modern Persian Novel: A Contetual Analysis Based on Iraj Pezeshkzad's Da'i Jan Napel'on (UCLA, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, 2006). In addition to Persian, I also have working knowledge of Arabic and French, and can more or less read German and Dutch with the aid of a dictionary. I currently reside in The Netherlands, where I work as a translator. Now that the dissertation is behind me, and I have more time for other interests, it occurred to me that it might be useful to have a public forum for scholarly discussion of proverb studies. To the best of my knowledge, no such forum existed before this one. Thus, I registered the domain name "paremiology.org" and created this message board, using free, open-source software. (I would have liked to have used the name "proverbs.org," but it is already taken.) Like the proverbial "stone soup," the success of this message board will very much depend on the participation of others. The stone is in the pot, so to speak, and your contributions are most welcome! (And no, I'm "not passing the hat!" The anticipated expense of keeping this board on-line are minimal, and I'll cover them out of pocket.) |
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| 2 | General Proverb Studies / Announcements / Announcing Paremiology.org on: 01.06.06 at 08:44:26 |
| Started by Administrator | Post by Administrator | |
| The Paremiology.org message board, which you are now viewing, has been created with a view to facilitating scholarly discussion of proverbs and related topics. Please feel free to register on the board, introduce yourself, and post any relevant questions, ideas, announcements, etc. If you are new to Internet message boards, please see the on-line Help section for information on how this works. |
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