Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Latvian divi/reply (20)

I am a professional linguist, though not an Indo-Europeanist (I work on South American indigenous languages). But one of the things I've learned is to stick to logics and good arguments, because (a) big stars with famous diplomas often think their fame is all their need to justify something, and (b) non-big-stars, without any diplomas, surprisingly often contribute really intelligent, insightful ideas that deserve recognition. (The opposite can happen too, of course, but my field -- which is small -- has more than its share of big stars who want to be treated like kings... so I tend to be partial in favor of the underdog, as it were.)

I think I'll start a discussion about this at, say, the beer parlor. Since it's a bit late tonight and I still want to add a bunch of form-of pages, I'll do it tomorrow rather than today. Who knows? The idea might take root and bear fruit...