Bilingual humor may be viewed as a relatively benign response to the frustrations inherent in living in such a linguistically and racially heterogene… - James Alan Matisoff

...the more I learn about Lahu the less I think I know. It has seemed that the more fluently I came to speak the language, the more apt people were to correct my mistakes, and the less likely they were to accept unidiomatic utterances from me.

The long drought in Tibeto-Burman and Sino-Tibetan historical linguistics is over. The field is opening up now as never before. Where once it was the esoteric preserve of a few, it is now being enthusiastically taken up by a new generation of lively, inquiring, talented students. For much of this exciting new activity, we have Paul K. Benedict to thank.

There can be no more solemn duty for the comparative linguist than to reconstruct his language family's word for the Supreme Being.