Talk:Pakuni

Criticism of Fromkin's Work

"The corpus is notable in containing many examples of the various Speech Errors for which Fromkin is famous. It also contains extensive assimilation and taboo deformation.

Note to Shadlag / Larry / George / Epigraphist: this section has been removed from the main article to the Discussion page because of the particular claim made. If you can provide evidence for these "speech errors" and examples of same and also note how they apply to Pakuni, then perhaps it ought to be restored to the article. Otherwise, it ought to be removed.

As for the question of tabu deformation, could you provide evidence for this as well? Certainly a professional linguist would be familiar with the concept and might even try to build this into a conlang. What is the evidence for this being the case with Pakuni?

Disparagement of Others' Work

"He (Shadlag) lauds the work of Olsen as pioneering, daring, and essential. Yet, Shadlag criticizes Olsen's work as lacking a corpus with sufficient documentation and decipherment notes. He also suspects that Olsen did not view all the episodes (even Season 3), as there are many obvious words upon which Olsen is silent. Shadlag suspects that Olsen is a professionally-trained Linguist, yet lacking in decipherment experience and familiarity with Fromkin's conlangs, both of which Shadlag claims in some measure. Shadlag claims that Olsen's work lacks methodological rigor, and yet is excellent in its effort and even in its many fruits."

Note to Shadlag / Larry / George / Epigraphist: Frath Wiki is not the place to needlessly criticize or disparage others' works (especially when turning around to immediately aggrandize your own).