I've decided to celebrate my 1000th post by holding a language book giveaway. If you've followed my log, you know I've got oodles of language books in my house (much to my wife's, and the movers', chagrin). On occasion, I think I have too many books. But mostly I ignore those thoughts because, well, language books.
But the 1000th post here is special. These forums are one of my favorite places to go online and I have learned so much from so many of you. I wanted to pay this community back. Some other groups I belong to have giveaways like this, so I checked with one of the admins and got permission to offer this giveaway.
I've got books that I never look at and probably won't ever look at. In some instances, I have duplicates. My books cover the following languages: Russian, Esperanto, German, Cornish, Irish. I'll send one lucky person one of my books!
Rules are simple:
1) Reply to this thread with a) the language you're interested in and 2) the reason (the funnier the better!).
2) You get one entry and one entry only! If you reply to this post more than once you're disqualified.
3) Your mailing address must be in the U.S. or willing to pay the difference between media mail (~$3.00) and shipping to Timbuktu (or whatever you call home).
4) No selling the book on eBay or anywhere! If you don't like the book, you have to give it away for free.
On 12 January at 9:00am NY time, I'll use a random number generator to pick the winner, based on the number of your post. I will send the winner a PM asking for mailing address. If the winner does not reply to me by PM within 24 hours, I'll pick another winner. The book will remain a mystery until you get it! I only ask that after you get it, you post a pic of it in this thread.
OK, so that's it. I don't think I missed anything. IF I did, please PM me what I missed so we can keep all the replies to this post as entries only.
Cheers, and again to you all, thanks for all your help and support during my language journey. Happy New Year!
(Edit: Added rule #4 and edited rule #3)
