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<div>Antoinette,</div>
<div>Let me endorse Yorick's and others' comments that openness in
dialogue is a FAR more important value than the potential that
someone's attention might be taken for the microsecond it requires to
look at the Subject line. Even if i were to ignore this most
interesting discussion, it would constitute a microscopic portion of
the email I receive and don't read, either because its spam or because
my time and interests vary from time to time.</div>
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<div>Please let those who complain, do so publicly.</div>
<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Bob Parks</div>
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<div>At 2:50 PM +0100 9/14/07, Yorick Wilks wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Antoinette<br>
The problem with the Freeman-Sowa debate is that it actually
was <br>
about corpus linguistics because Rob F has a view of how to
extract <br>
patters and significance from corpora<br>
that got tangled up with VERY abstract concepts. But those who
cannot <br>
stand those abstract words should remember where the debate
started <br>
and what Rob's motivation was--something quite close to
home--just <br>
look at his website! I think if people can't follow the hard
bits <br>
they should be a bit tolerant, and/or just not read them and wait
for <br>
a bit they like to come by--as opposed to trying to shut people
down.<br>
Best<br>
Yorick<br>
<br>
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On 14 Sep 2007, at 14:09, Antoinette Renouf wrote:<br>
<br>
> Dear List members,<br>
> Corpora-list was set up by ICAME (International Computer Archive
of<br>
> Modern and Mediaeval English) to impart information and
discuss <br>
> matters<br>
> of relevance to the field. We have been receiving complaints
that<br>
> Corpora-list has recently been dominated by 3 or 4 people
talking <br>
> about<br>
> topics having little to do with corpus linguistics. Far be it
from <br>
> me to<br>
> spoil the fun or stifle debate, but we are all anyway swamped
with<br>
> information beyond our capacity to process, so please do restrict
your<br>
> comments to issues of more central relevance to the particular
list<br>
> community, and/or consider whether private emails might be a
more<br>
> appropriate mechanism for continuing debate once you have found
a<br>
> conversation partner.<br>
> All good wishes<br>
> Antoinette Renouf<br>
> Chair of ICAME<br>
><br>
> --------------------------<br>
> Antoinette Renouf<br>
> Professor of English Language and Linguistics<br>
> School of English<br>
> University of Central England in Birmingham<br>
><br>
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