A query...

[Claire Bowern]

> 
> I wrote the two sentences quoted above hoping that I could make you split
> apart the issues of the speech community from the issues of the linguist.
> 
> I failed. :)
> 

I know :), but that's because many field linguists can't split them when 
it comes to the dissemination of data, no matter how much they would 
like to. The speech community are stakeholders in research too.

Claire