Summary in five words: Linguistics earns less than Medicine.
On Jul 6, 2013, at 7:08 PM, SS <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 15:23 +0530, Bonobashi wrote: >> Would out of India and Aryan invasion theory have anything to do with >> this attack of jaundice, Shiv? Anything at all? No, nothing? Oh, all >> right, then. Just asked. > > My late father, after acquiring the degrees BS, MS and PhD used to say > that they stand for Bullshit, More of Same and Piled higher and deeper. > > I thought it was a joke until I started digging into the work of > linguistics departments. The bullshitting started decades, if not over a > century ago. What we see today is stuff that is built upon the original > stuff - piled higher and deeper. > > The big take away lesson that I got from that is when it comes to new > language theories > 1. Be rigid > 2. Be aggressive > 3. Misquote, misinterpret and mislead to your heart's content because no > one else will understand it and linguists are all doing the same thing > anyway. > 4. Accuse others of bigotry and less than honourable motives. > > Incidentally if you understood what was in that blog please post a > summary in five words or less. > > shiv > > > > >
