Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: World Science Day for Peace and Development (10 November) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:56:45 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:56:57 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d3510ab18672055e802e0d5b3709966b"; logging-data="1220606"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19McLBXq6/X6/1iWYDkxECOAQJbHpfP9TM=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:fwR4Rz7EGH7TVjx5jTzoR7zUPD4= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2278 On 11/11/2024 11:08 p.m., Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote: > On 2024-11-11 09:43:56 +0000, Ross Clark said: > >> zzzzzz....Oh! UNESCO, 2002- >> >> "It might be thought that language isn't a relevant topic on this day..." >> But Crystal has a few words to say about alternative terms for >> linguistics (or some sub- or super-field thereof) which involve the >> word "science": language science(s), linguistic science, speech >> science, phonetic science >> >> OK, still boring. Let's move on. > > Best to omit the "science" from all of these. > > "Anything with 'science' in its name isn't a science." See > https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/26/not-science/ > > Think of Christian Science, social science, political science, etc. > ....not to mention Religious Science (est. 1922), and Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (est.1950), forerunner of S****tology. It is also true that in some academic realms, being a Science gets you a higher level of funding than being an Art. Just where the boundary of "science" is to be drawn is a topic I've long since fulfilled my lifetime quota of arguing about.