DarrenTomlyn
Banned
- Joined
- May 16, 2011
- Member Type
- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- English
- Home Country
- UK
- Current Location
- UK
It's been over 10 years since I last posted here, and I was hoping this wouldn't be necessary at all. I have ALWAYS understood that the problems I've identified fundamentally exist as a matter of (for both cause and solution) academic linguistics. Unfortunately, no-one in academia seems to be interested in talking to me at all, anymore, so what am I supposed to do for academia itself?
This is quite simply, AS IMPORTANT AS IT GETS.
So, I have undertaken a( n) (amateur) self-study of English, (starting with computer-based role-playing games, but not ending there, by any means!), language in general and the greater context of its identity, in relation and comparison to how it is taught and described by academia, that has taken me over 20 years to finish, but I got there in the end - (it almost feels like an audit).
Although I have identified lots of symptoms within the entire stack of general current academic teaching and description involved, it's really the combination of two related, most fundamental, simple, easy to demonstrate, and obvious problems, that matter most of all for understanding just how badly academia has got everything wrong.
These problems are ENTIRELY of academia's own making, which, again, is why this is fundamentally a matter of linguistics.
There is a fundamental, obvious, difference and disconnect between what humanity knows and demonstrates in the languages it uses and what academia recognises, teaches and describes, that completely undermines EVERYTHING academia exists to do, is about and for.
The most fundamental problem that obviously demonstrates this, and then helps to cause all other issues, (that might exist due to academia trying to place everything in the same context as the act of studying it!), is that academia, demonstrably and obviously does not fully understand things, in general, as humanity does as a whole, that need to exist as the foundation of everything it recognises and understands.
Without a complete understanding here, it means that most of what academia needs to understand for itself, cannot truly exist at all, especially since the context needed for that to happen does not exist either, which is the next main problem, symptom/effect. The context needed, and the foundation it should be resting on - (no, not information itself) - therefore does not exist in academic descriptions and therefore the entire current stack is resting on a foundation that cannot support it, and the reason for its existence cannot therefore be truly understood. Indeed, the very nature of what this 'stack' is, is a problem.
I initially thought that fixing some of the symptoms I saw might be an issue, due to the rest of the current stack falling apart when that happened - which also happened when I came here to talk about such initial matters 10 years ago - but now I know and understand that this is a feature, not a bug...
So, the good news is that I have a replacement basic stack (in English) that fits and is consistent, up to and including language itself, ready to be built upon, properly, along with a lot of symptoms and solutions, (though not all - my study here is still incomplete), for English, (that might also help with other languages). Either way, how every language is taught and described will inherently need to be completely rebuilt.
Everything I have is extremely fundamental, simple and obvious, (which is why I'm so disappointed it took me so long to figure it all out), and to publish it without any academic input should not be in academia's interest, but if no one is interested in talking to me anymore (I was talking to Professor Neil Mercer of Cambridge University before he retired, and have since tried to talk to suitable people at local universities etc.), then what am I supposed to do? How much more does academia wish to fail?
So posting here is quite simply a matter of last resort, for academic input over the entire process of understanding and publishing what I have, before I do so of my own volition, completely independently of any and all academic input, and therefore the world shall know that academia has failed even itself. Completely.
Note I am not interested in general replies or questions etc. - all I want is to work WITH academia itself through this entire matter, which I expect to take quite a while. It will not take long for me to explain why it matters to anyone in such a position to help (especially in person).
This is quite simply, AS IMPORTANT AS IT GETS.
So, I have undertaken a( n) (amateur) self-study of English, (starting with computer-based role-playing games, but not ending there, by any means!), language in general and the greater context of its identity, in relation and comparison to how it is taught and described by academia, that has taken me over 20 years to finish, but I got there in the end - (it almost feels like an audit).
Although I have identified lots of symptoms within the entire stack of general current academic teaching and description involved, it's really the combination of two related, most fundamental, simple, easy to demonstrate, and obvious problems, that matter most of all for understanding just how badly academia has got everything wrong.
These problems are ENTIRELY of academia's own making, which, again, is why this is fundamentally a matter of linguistics.
There is a fundamental, obvious, difference and disconnect between what humanity knows and demonstrates in the languages it uses and what academia recognises, teaches and describes, that completely undermines EVERYTHING academia exists to do, is about and for.
The most fundamental problem that obviously demonstrates this, and then helps to cause all other issues, (that might exist due to academia trying to place everything in the same context as the act of studying it!), is that academia, demonstrably and obviously does not fully understand things, in general, as humanity does as a whole, that need to exist as the foundation of everything it recognises and understands.
Without a complete understanding here, it means that most of what academia needs to understand for itself, cannot truly exist at all, especially since the context needed for that to happen does not exist either, which is the next main problem, symptom/effect. The context needed, and the foundation it should be resting on - (no, not information itself) - therefore does not exist in academic descriptions and therefore the entire current stack is resting on a foundation that cannot support it, and the reason for its existence cannot therefore be truly understood. Indeed, the very nature of what this 'stack' is, is a problem.
I initially thought that fixing some of the symptoms I saw might be an issue, due to the rest of the current stack falling apart when that happened - which also happened when I came here to talk about such initial matters 10 years ago - but now I know and understand that this is a feature, not a bug...
So, the good news is that I have a replacement basic stack (in English) that fits and is consistent, up to and including language itself, ready to be built upon, properly, along with a lot of symptoms and solutions, (though not all - my study here is still incomplete), for English, (that might also help with other languages). Either way, how every language is taught and described will inherently need to be completely rebuilt.
Everything I have is extremely fundamental, simple and obvious, (which is why I'm so disappointed it took me so long to figure it all out), and to publish it without any academic input should not be in academia's interest, but if no one is interested in talking to me anymore (I was talking to Professor Neil Mercer of Cambridge University before he retired, and have since tried to talk to suitable people at local universities etc.), then what am I supposed to do? How much more does academia wish to fail?
So posting here is quite simply a matter of last resort, for academic input over the entire process of understanding and publishing what I have, before I do so of my own volition, completely independently of any and all academic input, and therefore the world shall know that academia has failed even itself. Completely.
Note I am not interested in general replies or questions etc. - all I want is to work WITH academia itself through this entire matter, which I expect to take quite a while. It will not take long for me to explain why it matters to anyone in such a position to help (especially in person).