[lg policy] The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax, and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language

[Dave Sayers]

This looks like an old classic, one that many of you will have seen, but 
not me.

http://users.utu.fi/freder/Pullum-Eskimo-VocabHoax.pdf

I plan to make all my students read it just as soon as someone employs 
me to do so. This is because it upholds two great principles: the 
primacy of the scientific method; and the importance of not taking 
yourself too seriously (both crucial to academic progress I think).

Dave


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Dr. Dave Sayers
Honorary Research Fellow
School of the Environment and Society
Swansea University
dave.sayers at cantab.net
http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers/About

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