Here.
These jerkoffs really made me angry.
It is 65 pages now, and it has 34 references, 6 personal communications and 28 cites. A number of the judgements are now from linguists, articles in linguistics journals, people with graduate degrees who took a vast number of linguistics courses, grad students in philology, and language teachers with BA’s in Linguistics. There are also a number from people who I personally tested. And I do have one result from a formal intelligibility study, but I could only find one of them for Slavic. These types of studies are almost never done with major languages.
The truth is that even if it’s 300 pages and has 100 references, these cranks and hacks still won’t be happy. They will say this piece is junk no matter how good I make it. Part of the problem is that they will not accept any judgment unless it is from a “trained linguist.” But no one knows what that means. Arrogant eggheads often use that to mean a current or former professor of Linguistics with a PhD. Anything less than that simply won’t cut it.
