Handfuls of Unrelated Forms

petegray petegray at btinternet.com
Sat Jul 7 15:01:28 UTC 2001


> One of the reasons linguistics makes such little progress is that people with
> so little Greek are permitted to voice their irrelevant opinion in specialist
> fora.

Whoa-up there buddy!
I am grateful for those who raise any linguistic questions in these fora.
My  Latin, Greek and Sanskrit happen to be more than passable, but it is an
excellent discipline for me to have to defend or argue particular positions
which perhaps I have never questioned because they are "common knowledge".
I also discover the gaps in my own so-called knowledge.

I am also grateful to the colleagues on this list who tolerate my stupidity
when I, in turn, voice an opinion in an area where I lack the necessary
specialist knowledge, but don't realise it.

So all of you out there with no Greek - firstly go out and learn some, but
also go on stating your opinions!

Peter



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