Re: schoen

Reinhold (Rey) Aman:

>
> This is not an (artificial) distinction but a real, useful and
> scientific one. You professional linguists want to have your field of
> study and research considered a *science* -- and yet you are clinging to
> the ambiguous, polysemous and downright sloppy term "Middle" rather than
> using the precise and scientific terms "Middle" and "Central." That's
> as "scientific" as sociology and psychiatry.

I doubt that your distinction is scientific; I claim mine (middle in a
linear and central in a planar context) is much more useful than yours.
Mine is not scientific either. Both are probably artificial.

Joachim
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