Re: Stacking up on standard works

At 6:35:58 PM on Saturday, March 31, 2012, Tavi wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>>> 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.

> Anyway, you behave like a medieval scholar.

Well, if the medieval scholar in question is Nicolas Oresme,
say, that's a splendid compliment!

>> But your attitude towards academic training is yet
>> another of the typical stigmata of the crackpot.

> Not really, because I've also got academic training on
> computer science,

So? That has nothing to do with your obvious contempt for
the attitude that you believe is instilled by academic
training in linguistics.

> and I'm self-taught on a lot of subjects. Somebody
> compared me with a Renaissance humanist.

Reminds me of that old refrain, 'And the lurkers support me
in e-mail'.

Brian