From: Tavi
Message: 69152
Date: 2012-03-31
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:
>Anyway, you behave like a medieval scholar.
> > Your attitude is the result of academic training, which
> > conditions you to refuse my discourse.
>
> Hardly. My academic training is in mathematics, a field in
> which the emphasis is very much doing one's own reasoning.
> With the exception of a very elementary introductory course
> that I took about 45 years ago from the delightful
> sociolinguist Ron Macaulay, I'm entirely self-taught in
> linguistics.
>
Not really, because I've also got academic training on computer science, and I'm self-taught on a lot of subjects. Somebody compared me with a Renaissance humanist.> But your attitude towards academic training is yet another
> of the typical stigmata of the crackpot.
>