Talk:Ken George

message: Ken George's academic bio does not, in itself, substantiate his characterization as "a linguist", as such. (It's also apparently written by George himself, so it's not an independent source.) Certainly he has some academic qualifications in Celtic studies, however. Shall we change the mention of linguistics to Celtic studies? Q·L·1968 ☿ 11:47, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It states that he has a Doctorat du Troisième Cycle on the phonology of Cornish. Perhaps this should be changed to "phonologist" ? - Francis Tyers · 15:17, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Says that his thesis was a linguistic one. - Francis Tyers · 15:22, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm. Well, phonology is of course a branch of linguistics... Still, two of his degrees fall so neatly into the category of 'Celtic studies', while I hesitate to call him a phonologist as such. I mean, he hasn't spent a lot of time formally studying phonology as a whole (i.e. outside of just Brythonic), as far as I know. (And I could be wrong.) Q·L·1968 ☿ 23:06, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know, it depends on where you're from maybe, but here I'd say if someone has a PhD in a subject, published articles in journals relating to the subject (e.g. KJ George (1983) A computer model of sound changes in Cornish' - Journal of the Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing), and books (Cornish in The Celtic Languages, 1993) you can refer to them by that. I've no idea if these are good or bad papers, but it Is there a publication threshold that I'm not aware of ? Maybe I should stop telling people I'm a computational linguist, as I don't even have a PhD! :) - Francis Tyers · 08:05, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A doctorat du troisième cycle isn't a PhD. It's a lesser post-grad degree. I don't care much either way, but I know there are Cornish users who are very sensitive about characterizing George as a 'linguist'. (Might just be a tempest in a teapot, though.) Q·L·1968 ☿ 14:24, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think that "linguist" is a protected title in the way that "social worker" or "pharmacist" are. DuncanHill (talk) 14:33, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Aha, it might be what is called a tesina in Spain, which is like a Masters' dissertation in the UK. I don't see why they would be upset at calling him a linguist, I can see them being angry at his orthography (haha, I hate your spelling!) but to be upset that a man who publishes papers and books on linguistics and language calls himself a linguist. I'm not sure about that... - Francis Tyers · 14:57, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking on the French Wikipedia, it seems to suggest that doctorat du troisième cycle = doctorat = PhD. But with the Bologna process I'm not so sure any more — I don't speak French well, so if you could clarify it (either here or on my Wikipedia page) that would be cool. - Francis Tyers · 15:05, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
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replies: text: @Evertype Tha sibh ceart! Tha e ga dheanamh a-rithist.--MacRùsgail (talk) 12:20, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
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