Re: Cultures whose own name is unknown


Dylan Sung wrote:
"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Mike Wright wrote:
| > Peter T. Daniels wrote:
| >
| > > [...]
| > > One of the nice things about linguistics is that it's rather
| > > anarchical. You don't pass a test to join the Linguistic Society of
| > > America; it's not a credentialling organization.
| > > [...]
| >
| > Ooh! Does this mean that I can be a linguist, too? ("But I'm not a
| > linguist" is my standard disclaimer here. I probably wouldn't want to
| > give that up, the alternative being something like, "I'm an incompetent
| > linguist", which doesn't sound quite as nice.)
|
| It means you can join the Linguistic Society of America, or the
| International Linguistic Association (formerly the Linguistic Circle of
| New York), etc. But the papers you submit for publication in their
| journals or for presentation at their meetings will be anonymously
| peer-reviewed just like anyone else's.
|

I hope Al Gross is reading... ;-)

I didn't say that every linguistics society is _strict_ in its
evaluations of abstracts ...

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