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From: alderson@netcom16.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Ruhlen's "On the Origin of Languages": a Review (I)
In-Reply-To: Jacques Guy's message of Mon, 23 Sep 1996 10:00:13 -0700
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In article <3246C21D.7570@trl.telstra.com.au> Jacques Guy
<j.guy@trl.telstra.com.au> writes:

>That the results from such "methods" should be published by outfits like
>Stanford University Press (viz "On the Origin of Languages") is a sorry
>comment on what gets taught at some universities.

I should be greatly surprised if there were any connection between publications
by any university's press and the matter taught at the university in question.
I doubt that any producing editor at such a press is of necessity a graduate of
the institution.

University presses publish many more books than the faculty of the universities
to which they are attached can produce, you know.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
