Re: [tied] "Will the ‘real’ linguist please stand up?"

From: S.Kalyanaraman
Message: 18924
Date: 2003-02-20

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:> > That Kalya-something-or-another guy:
> >Indo-Iranian > Finno-Ugric> >
> >"Will the `real' linguist please stand up?>
> Would the fake linguist please shut up? No one's interested.

That Kalya-something says that someone is interested, for example,
Mallory. If gLen-something doesn't want to stand up, one can't
assume that no one's interested.

K. (will do)