Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...

On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:29:10 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber
<naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

On 2024-07-26, Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:

In his own field he had some useful information, but outside his field
he could be very dogmatic about things that he simply got wrong.

>
But what _is_ PTD's area of actual expertise?  Writing systems, I
guess, supported by the fact that he co-edited a book on the topic?
Semitic languages, maybe--or am I already misled by my own total
ignorance there?

Something to do with linguistics, which was relevant on sci.lang,
about which few on aue dared to contradict him. Even if he was wrong
about something, most of us wouldn't know.

But when it came to English usage, or several other topics, heis
knowledge was lessa accurate.


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