Hopeless How can Ryulong have the nerve to meddle in linguistic topics without knowing linguistics at all Considering his anti intellectual attitude combined with 100 pages per day edits I can not imagine how tremendous damage he has done to Wikipedia First of all he must learn the difference between phonology and phonetics That s a minimum requirement to join the discussion Everyone in the field knows the distinction Showing that Ryulong s accusation against me is groundless is as easy as pie Just check John R Bentley s A Linguistic History of the Forgotten Islands 2008 for example You can find the spellings I used above The real problem is that the book is a serious linguistic work If Ryulong reads it without even knowing the distinction between phonology and phonetics he will taint Wikipedia with another bunch of errors