hic, hic est

"To what extent are endangered languages a priority in modern linguistics?  Are graduate students encouraged to document moribund or endangered languages for their dissertation?  How much encouragement is there to compile a dictionary of one?  How many academic departments encourage applied linguistics in communities for the support of of endangered languages?  How many departments provide appropriate training for speakers of these languages who are most ideally suited to do the most needed work?  Obviously we must do some serious rethinking of our priorities, lest linguistics go down in history as the only science that presided obliviously over the disappearance of 90% of the very field to which it is dedicated."

- The World's Languages in Crisis, by Michael Krauss

"πρὸς τὰς τύχας γὰρ τὰς φρένας κεκτήμεθα."