Tuesday, November 21, 2006

GALLAUDET BOT TRIVIAL PURSUITS: Ken Levinson

Who Said:

1. Louis [Schwartz] is a nut case anyway.

2. …if his language is what we aspire to, we are in huge trouble.

3. …these people [McCain and Brueggemann] have NO clue as to what they have done.

Answer:

Ken Levinson

Background Information:

1. Louis Schwartz is a highly respected financial and tax consultant. He graduated from Gallaudet University.

2. The language is American Sign Language.

3. Senator McCain and Brenda Brueggemann resigned from BOT because they had NO clue as to the fact that only IKJ supervised JKF at Gallaudet University for many years.

4 comments:

Albert W said...

I keep sending e mails to kenlevinson@hotmail.com two to five times every single day... asking him to resign the bot. Why is he still on the bot after being there for 16 years? did you all see his letter to his friends about louis schwartz? very insulting. "if his language is what we aspire to, we are in huge trouble"... that means ken worried that Louis is using ASL.. then ken and friends are in huge trouble... ken mocked louis for using ASL... thats Ken s true color showing... please e mail him daily... 4 times daily... more, the merrier... just one line in subject: RESIGNS NOW

Anonymous said...

I'm not exactly impressed with Ken Levinson's behavior either, but at least let's get our facts straight.

I don't think he was commenting on Louis Schwartz's ASL. Did you see the emails from Louis Schwartz? They did have some grammatical errors in them. When I saw Ken Levinson's email, I interpreted it as a commentary on the quality of Louis Schwartz's ENGLISH skills, NOT his usage of ASL.

Carl Schroeder said...

I wish to contradict "Anonymous" who interpreted on the quality of Louis' English skills. There's no question that there exists what I would call language influence, which does have a very strange impact on a target language. For example, my mother still spells Saterday for Saturday because her first language was Dutch (Zaterdag). It's the language influence that we need to deal with.

Carl Schroeder said...

I wish to contradict "Anonymous" who interpreted on the quality of Louis' English skills. There's no question that there exists what I would call language influence, which does have a very strange impact on a target language. For example, my mother still spells Saterday for Saturday because her first language was Dutch (Zaterdag). It's the language influence that we need to deal with.