William Davis' paper in Dialogue evaluates Skousen and Carmack's Early Modern English model

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Re: William Davis' paper in Dialogue evaluates Skousen and Carmack's Early Modern English model

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Everybody Wang Chung wrote:
Wed Jul 02, 2025 10:13 pm
Someone made a lot of money off this silly project. Tom or Dr. Scratch posted the financials a few years ago that showed Skousen received almost $300,000.00 for one year's work on the project. That's insane.
Especially if Marcus remembers correctly and they retracted 70% of what they claimed initially.
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Re: William Davis' paper in Dialogue evaluates Skousen and Carmack's Early Modern English model

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Everybody Wang Chung wrote:
Wed Jul 02, 2025 10:13 pm
Someone made a lot of money off this silly project. Tom or Dr. Scratch posted the financials a few years ago that showed Skousen received almost $300,000.00 for one year's work on the project. That's insane.
It was actually about $329,000 over six years.

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Re: William Davis' paper in Dialogue evaluates Skousen and Carmack's Early Modern English model

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I Have Questions wrote:
Wed Jul 02, 2025 11:05 pm
Everybody Wang Chung wrote:
Wed Jul 02, 2025 10:13 pm
Someone made a lot of money off this silly project. Tom or Dr. Scratch posted the financials a few years ago that showed Skousen received almost $300,000.00 for one year's work on the project. That's insane.
Especially if Marcus remembers correctly and they retracted 70% of what they claimed initially.
I was close!! In Feb 2021:
Lem wrote:
Wed Feb 03, 2021 9:10 pm
..but just as a reminder, based on the recent retractions published by the Interpreter, here is the count as it currently stands:

Section 1, Archaic Vocabulary: 26 proposed as archaic [out of 41 originally proposed, 37% have been retracted]

Section 3, Archaic Phrases: 14 proposed as archaic [out of 29 originally proposed, 52% have been retracted]

Section 4, Archaic Grammar: 2 proposed as archaic[out of 15 originally proposed, 87% have been retracted]

Section 7, Archaic Expressions: 7 proposed as archaic [out of 37 originally proposed, 81% have been retracted]

For an average retraction of 60% of previously published results, most or all included in the sales of hardcover, expensive publications.
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Re: William Davis' paper in Dialogue evaluates Skousen and Carmack's Early Modern English model

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It’s funny how DCP is completely silent on hard hitting criticisms like this.

But the second after Noel posts a comment on SeN he stops everything he is doing to address it.
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