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Take Note!
  • The LSA's 2009 Annual Meeting has been moved to San Francisco due to an ongoing labor dispute affecting the Portland Hilton. The host hotel will be the San Francisco Hilton. The LSA will enjoy the same excellent room rate--$99/night single or double, $129/night triple or quad--that we were to have had in Portland. More information
  • Nominations for the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award are due 1 June, 2008.
  • Nominations for the LSA's "Linguistics, Language and the Public" Award will be accepted until 1 June, 2008.

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2008 2007


LSA Letter to ANSI about Open Document Standards

In 2007, the LSA sent a letter to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) regarding the use of language codes in the Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, which is being proposed as an ISO standard. The letter advocates the use of the ISO 639-3 language code system in OOXML since this is the only existing coding system which attempts to cover all of the world's languages.

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