Intellectual Impostures

Sokal & Bricmont's INTELLECTUAL IMPOSTURES (downloadable pdf file)

"Our aim is, quite simply, to denounce intellectual posturing and dishonesty, from wherever they come." (p14)

Be A Teacher [2]

The Fourth Type Of Linguist

It used to be said that there are three types of linguist:

• the ants, who patiently build, build, build;
• the crows, who just pick, pick, pick;
• the eagles, who soar on high, seeing further than all others.

But there is a fourth type:

• the cuckoos, who lay their productions in the nests of another theorist, thereby having them cared for as if legitimate offspring.

In biology, this is termed brood parasitism.

Be A Teacher [1]

The Textual Function Of Punctuation

Genre

Interpersonal Enactment Vs Ideational Construal

The Three "Dialects" Of Systemic Functional Arithmetic

1. The 2+2=3 "dialect"

2. The 2+2=4 "dialect"

3. The 2+2=5 "dialect"




I maintain that two and two would continue to make four,
in spite of the whine of the amateur for three,
or the cry of the critic for five.
 — James Whistler