Re: Insults was (Re: Fw: translation needed)

Brad Coon wrote:

>> Yiklamu?  (Whatever happened to Mark, anyway?)
>>
>My recollection is that he was off on one of his "I am the Grand Poobah
>of the Conlang universe as well as being better and brighter than
>all of you put together" harangues.  A number of people, including
>myself, noted that it was getting tiresome.  He retired in a huff.
Hmm, I don't remember that.  But he was certainly opinionated about
linguistics.  I remember having a very long and very tiring semi-private
exchange with him about the nature and validity of various kinds of
linguistic data.  He was shocked shocked shocked that I would dare to
use (*gasp!*) elicited data and grammaticality judgements in my
analyses.  All 'real' linguists, he claimed, know that grammaticality
judgements are meaningless and that the only valid source of data is
texts.  Whatever, Mark...

Matt.