Comments: THE LINGUISTS.

3:00 am Friday for some (I'm in Calgary, and get my PBS from Spokane).

Thanks for the reminder!

Posted by Wayne at February 23, 2009 01:20 AM

Canadians get PBS too through broadcast and cable, thankfully. Looking forward to it!

Posted by Zvi at February 23, 2009 01:09 PM

I saw the film; it's decent, and language-interested folk will find much of interest, but as a filmmaker I was a bit disappointed in the end result. Still, anyone here to read this comment should certainly see it!

Posted by Dave McDougall at February 23, 2009 01:15 PM

I sure can't find the scheudle for it. When I search I keep getting errors.
http://www.pbs.org/thelinguists/airdates.html
"The Linguists premieres Thursday, February 26th, 2009 at 10:00pm."
Not here it doesn't. Is this supposed to be eastern time?

Posted by Nijma at February 26, 2009 08:48 PM

Maybe "Worldview"?

Posted by Nijma at February 26, 2009 08:59 PM

One of the most striking lessons of the film is how political language can be. On Harrison and Anderson's map of the geography of endangered languages, the hot spots tends to be place where colonizers (the Spanish in Bolivia, the Russians in Siberia) have suppressed indigenous languages. In some places a language gets banned; in other places it is merely belittled.

Posted by femanol at March 12, 2009 03:59 PM