  ::::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 cannot 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.   