Re: genes and language (Homer, Richard Dawkins)

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 12:39:40 GMT

Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels: do I detect a note of bitterness in your
> replies to me? I got that feeling in the spring of last year,
> and it never really left me. Did you have a good idea when
> you were a student? did your professor trample on it? would
> you like to have been as bold and daring as I am? Well, if
> so, that hypothetical idea of yours would still be there,
> hidden somewhere in your mind. How about telling me? I could
> help you develop it - I am getting asked by professors to
> help them develop their ideas, little me who is working
> outside academe - and I know how to handle them dinosaurs,
> how to get by them. Actually, you are a dinosaur yourself,
> but a cute one, so I am ready to help you develop that
> eventual idea of yours. Never too late. Rupert Ruhstaller
> did not dare publish his new grammar based on functors and
> arguments and visualized by budding circles; I do it for
> him now. I could also help one Peter T. Daniels develop an
> old idea of his, dating from his years as a student.

I take it you haven't read any of my publications. That's ok. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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