By LYDIA KIESLING
THE NEW YORK TIMES - AUG. 14, 2015
Four years ago, the federal government paid me a large sum — a year of
graduate-school tuition, plus a stipend — to study Uzbek at the
University of Chicago. Uzbek is among the least commonly taught of the
so-called Less Commonly Taught Languages, or L.C.T.L.s. So uncommonly is
it taught, in fact, that without federal largess it would hardly be
taught at all. Because I happened to speak decent Turkish, a cousin of
Uzbek, and because I spent a week in Uzbekistan when I was 22, and
because life is nothing if not a sequence of odd choices vaguely
considered, for two years I sat in a room with two other students and
produced some extremely literal translations.
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