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originally posted by: rigel4
a reply to: beautyfrompain
Yea they make grunting noises the way a human sounds
when they are trying to make Big Foot noises/lol
This "Bigfoot" is likely human, and the Sierra Sounds a combination of hoax and misidentification, like all of the other evidence for Bigfoot.
Nelson has created a pronunciation key for these phonemes, and he uses the Latin alphabet, diacritics and various other symbols to represent these sounds. He calls this the Sasquatch Phonetic Alphabet (SPA), or the Unclassified Hominid Phonetic Alphabet (UHPA). It is unclear why he doesn't use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), the standardized representation of the sounds of spoken language. Bilingualism (speaking two or more languages) and working as a translator doesn't qualify someone to identify or describe undocumented languages. This is an area of anthropological linguistics, although it appears as if many cryptozoological fans confuse "crypto-linguistics" as a field that researches the language of cryptids.
originally posted by: Cogito, Ergo Sum
originally posted by: rigel4
a reply to: beautyfrompain
Yea they make grunting noises the way a human sounds
when they are trying to make Big Foot noises/lol
It seems at least one Ph.D in linguistics agrees with you.
This "Bigfoot" is likely human, and the Sierra Sounds a combination of hoax and misidentification, like all of the other evidence for Bigfoot.
Well, not really a scientist or a Ph.D in linguistics. The writer received a Ph.D in the area of Lexical Semantics defined as "noun. the study of the meaning of words and phrases and the relationships between them, such as synonymy, antonymy, and hyponymy".
It sounds like the writer took a class or two in linguistics as an undergrad and now makes her living as a skeptic. But, on the plus side, she is a "Research Fellow for the James Randi Educational Foundation". Impressive.
Hardly worth considering her point of view .
originally posted by: tiger_tts
Well, not really a scientist or a Ph.D in linguistics.
University of New England
(Bachelor of Arts Linguistics, Anthropology & History 2001)
University of New England (Bachelor of Arts with Honours - First Class in Linguistics 2002)[2]
School of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of New England, Australia (Ph.D.) Linguistics 2007[3]
originally posted by: Cogito, Ergo Sum
. . . she has academic qualifications in linguistics...
[post]originally posted by: tiger_tts
Mr. Nelson spent his career in the U.S. Navy and has over 30 years experience in Foreign Language and Linguistics, including the collection, transcription, analysis and reporting of voice communications. He is a two time graduate of the U.S. Navy Cryptologic Voice Transcription School (Russian and Spanish) and has logged thousands of hours of voice transcription.
Ms. Stollznow received her PhD in 2007. Wikipedia states she has “a PhD in the area of Lexical Semantics.” If this is in error she should correct it. If this is her area of expertise, it is really the wrong focus for this subject because it appears to be the study of related words and word groups, e.g. synonyms and antonyms. In her time since graduation I see that she has worked on the Script Encoding Initiative (again written word and not much help with determining what is on a tape). Stollznow is also a Research Fellow for the James Randi Educational Foundation a.k.a. a former magician who now makes his living as a professional skeptic.
In her 2014 book “Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic” she re-uses her 2013 Scientific American guest blog almost verbatim. Self-plagiarism is a serious matter. If she made no attribution (I could find none in a quick perusal), she is violating some important ethical, academic, and/or legal standards. “In a research atmosphere such as Queens University, self-plagiarism can lead to charges of scientific misconduct, firings and fines. For students in an academic atmosphere, self-plagiarism is often treated with the gravity of a standard case of plagiarism, resulting in suspension or expulsion.” (www.ithenticate.com/plagiarism-detection-blog/bid/52948/Self-Plagiarism-Is-it-Really-Plagiarism#.VgwUjn3itEM) At best the practice is lazy and smacks of deception or fraud.