15-11-2025, 07:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 15-11-2025, 07:12 PM by Doireannjane.)
(15-11-2025, 06:35 PM)LisaFaginDavis wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.You're not going to convince anyone (and neither is any potential solver) until you (and they) do the reading and explain how your (their) work fits into the work that has already been done. Read Ray Clemens's book. Read Claire Bowern's linguistic work. Read everything on Rene's website, even the pages that don't seem directly related to what you are doing. Any solution, in order to be convincing, absolutely must be alligned with what we already know about the manuscript.
How does your solution allign with the A/B differences? If you don't know what that means, then you really need to take a break and do some background reading - it is a fundamental characteristic of the manuscript.
How does it allign with the known history of the manuscript? If you don't know the history, step away and do the reading.
How does it allign with the liguistic analytics? Again, if you don't what those analyses are, step away and do the reading.
These are just a few of the fundamental questions that any plausible solution needs to address.
Anyone working on the manuscript needs to do this.
No one does this work fulltime. Many of us, including myself, have other jobs. Take your time, step away if you need to and take time to do the background reading at your own pace, then think about - in an intellectually honest way - how what you've learned impacts your ideas, and then either change your ideas if necessary or be prepared to explain how they allign with what we already know.
Anyone working on the manuscript needs to do this.
Respectfully, the assumption here is that those things haven't been done on my end. A lot of what you list I've already done or made great progress on. Probably not to the same degree as some of those here, sure. But this thread is almost entirely based on linguistics and repeatability. I'll read your recommendations, thank you. But I'm trying to demonstrate repeatability on this thread. This element of me proving myself to you all, isn't really what this is about. My research isn't just an overnight/half baked thought. I have thousands of lines of work that is not public.
