XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:29:10 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2024-07-26, Steve Hayes  wrote:   
      
   >> In his own field he had some useful information, but outside his field   
   >> he could be very dogmatic about things that he simply got wrong.   
   >   
   >But what _is_ PTD's area of actual expertise?  Writing systems, I   
   >guess, supported by the fact that he co-edited a book on the topic?   
   >Semitic languages, maybe--or am I already misled by my own total   
   >ignorance there?   
      
   Something to do with linguistics, which was relevant on sci.lang,   
   about which few on aue dared to contradict him. Even if he was wrong   
   about something, most of us wouldn't know.   
      
   But when it came to English usage, or several other topics, heis   
   knowledge was lessa accurate.   
      
      
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