From: Patrick C. Ryan
Message: 19284
Date: 2003-02-26
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [tied] English "voiced" stops
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> From: "Patrick C. Ryan" <proto-language@...>
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> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [tied] English "voiced" stops
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> [PCR]
> Experts assured us the world was flat some years ago. From what I have seen of this specialist, he is unconscionably imprecise.
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> And who eventually proved that the world wasn't flat?
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> I suppose you haven't seen or read anything by Ladefoged, but you don't hesitate to dismiss all that offhand. Such, I suppose, was also the attitude of those no-nonsense people who rejected the novel idea of a round Earth without examining the evidence, since their everyday experience already proved to their full satisfaction and beyond reasonable doubt that the Earth was as flat as a pancake, like the old experts had said.
[PCR]
I have not dismissed "all that offhand". I have only critiqued what was quoted to me, and the manner of exposition I observed. Ladefoged undoubtedly has written many things which are more interesting and less inaccurate.
But I do confess to a dislike for the practive of taking older, perfectly adequate definitions and redefining them.
Pat
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