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Science,(noun)
the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment:
Most dictionaries online say more or less the same thing. I think one can observe only things that exist, language languages that are spoken right here right now. And experimentation will this be using those languages to reconstruct how dead languages could have sounded like in order to ascertain if other languages could be related to the dead language itself. I think linguist call this method Historical Comparative method. So, how is it not scientific if it moves from oberservable language that are spoken right here right ? For example, how would I be unscientific if I oberseve existing world (spoken, attested languages) in order to reconstruct an unattested (i.e. dead language) like Middle Egyptian so as to ascertain if Negro Egyptian langiage is related or not? Wouldn’t the process of reconstruction be called “experimentation” itself? Or what is one supposed to do – come up with some kind of a Physics equation that will enable one to, like, calculate, the gravitational field between attested languages and Middle Egyptian to find out if that field accepts or rejects Negro Egyptian by a measure value like 3.141 or the square root of some negative number? Is that what’s supposed to happen to deem reconstruction method as scientific? Did Einstein himself knew that there were Blackholes when he came up with field equations of gravitational relativity or did he observe like a falling apple and deduced some gravitational field equations and then stumbled on Blackholes based on those equations…or is he a scientist science he is Einstein and others are not? Where is he buried in the first place? If I can find a pharoh buried some 5000 years ago, what about those who died merely few years ago and their graves cannot be found – did those who believe on them eat them? Alive? Or after the fact?
Now I am really confused and I think I am going to drop this linguistics thing because I have zero tolerances for people who change definition in a magical way out of thin air through the skin if their teeth and somehow people believe in them; people even buy their books. Let me get this right: it is unscientific to publish papers in a journal for peer review and scientific to change the meaning if science even when it is written in dictionaries that anyone can access and read online.
That’s it. I quit!
