¹ It may well be that this view of time is to be found in other areas of the world besides the Balkans (maybe all but Northern Europe and derivative cultures such as the US), but I speak here of the part of the world with which I am most familiar from a scholarly standpoint.

² I would like to thank Manos latrides of Athens, Greece, for this apt characterization of the intersection of journal editing with temporality.

³ The exact statement of the award is as follows: ‘A $60 award and certificate for the best high school project and a $40 award and certificate for the best middle school project… involving: 1) the investigation of some aspect of the nature of language (looking at sounds, words, sentences, or meaning), or 2) the investigation of the analysis of language, the perception of language, or the production of language, or 3) the examination of language as it changes through time or varies dialectally across a population’.

⁴ These efforts are not restricted to the United States. Dick Hudson of University College London, for instance, is founder of the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLIE) in England, and similar projects are underway in Australia and elsewhere.

⁵ These phrases are Turkish, Albanian, Macedonian. Bulgarian. and Greek. respectively, and all mean ‘slowly’ (reduplicated, thus literally ‘slowly slowly’). Albanian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian have clearly borrowed from the Turkish in this case; the Greek σιγά literally means ‘quietly’ (from Ancient Greek σιγά ‘in silence’. a dative case form of σιγή) ‘silence’ used adverbially). but the reduplicated nature of the Greek expression suggests some affinity with the other Balkan expressions. This phrasal Balkanism carries perhaps a somewhat negative implication that results may never be achieved, and that is most assuredly not the case for outreach efforts in linguistics; thus. to put it in a more positive light. one might characterize the progress as happening ‘slowly but surely’.