[Sca-cooks] Slap me in the face

[Antonia]

On 4/11/2010 1:08 PM, Suey wrote:
> On 11/3/10 8:19 PM, sca-cooks-request at lists.ansteorra.org wrote:
>> Then I'm afraid there is little any of us can do to help you.  The 
>> reason
>> you are getting criticisms about whether your statements are valid 
>> and can
>> be documented is because it is perceived that you are not citing your
>> sources.  Just saying that you worked in such and such a library for 
>> some
>> number of years is not sufficient.  It would be comparable to my 
>> saying that
>> I believe that the Japanese sailed to the New World and taught the 
>> native
>> Americans how to make pottery based on the fact that I once took an
>> archaeology course as part of my Masters degree in Far Eastern Art 
>> History!
>>

> I think that is a big dig. You are telling me that 17 years of honest 
> work are worth nothing and that my footnotes are invalid which happen 
> to include the leading dictionaries and encyclopedias, Cervantes, 
> Shakespeare, la Celestina, Juan Ruiz, Hieatt, Lucie Bolens, Nola, Sent 
> Sovi, Fadalat etc, etc, etc. I find that criticism unacceptable.


That wasn't what Kiri said at all.  She said that you are getting 
criticism because "it is perceived that you are not citing your 
sources".  Saying that you did your research in a library is not a good 
substitute for citation.

-- 
Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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