- We thank those who have already signed up for the bootcamp and those who responded to us supportively on the list and off the list - I (STG) thank Louw - again! - for his PR, this time regarding my upcoming plenary talk at the International Seminar "New Trends in Corpus Linguistics for Language Teaching and Translation Studies" in Granada, I hope to see you many of you there. - Louw writes "The reason I did so was the apparently mistaken belief that [...] MIGHT have left collocation out (as Sinclair perceived it) as an oversight." - we're happy that he recognizes his mistake, accept the apology that commonly comes with the recognition of mistakes, and promise not to hold it against him. - We enjoyed and have little to say about his own little philosophy of science bootcamp, but ... - ... we are amazed how he 'knows' that our bootcamp will be "a course in statistics" especially since anyone reading the syllabus at <http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries/teaching/bootcamp/Bootcamp.pdf> can recognize that statistics clearly plays a *subordinate* role in our syllabus (though maybe a more prominent one than Louw's research topic).
We'd like to close with a slightly altered quote of his first posting ... #------- [Louw's mails] look[...] exciting but [are] fatally flawed unless [actual information about the event] is included. Be sure to get value for money here. [...] Do not be duped by [philosophical musings]. [Read] if and only if [facts] are on offer. It is the difference between [productive discussion of facts] and [biased denunciation]. #-------
... and rest our case. :-)
STG -- Stefan Th. Gries ----------------------------------------------- University of California, Santa Barbara http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries -----------------------------------------------