...on a more minor-ish finding on the one ancient language that I've been studying intensively for the past few years, as well as to its circulation on a listhost for the broader field and on social media:
1) One guy who's not in the academy and who doesn't have degrees but who does heritage language stuff really gets it, and says as much on social media;
2) A guy who's outside of the academy and who does work on a language from another branch of the family and who has a standing book contract with an academic press was saying to me that I've been kicking *ss (his words);
3) A few scholars who I know from social media who work on yet another branch of the language family and who have jobs in the academy seem open and engaged; and
4) I get several international IP addresses googling my personal webpage, and some new followers on social media.
But, even though the blogpost got over 200 hits -- quite a bit for such a specialized topic! -- it's radio silence from within the field itself.
I almost feel like a portion of people there are waiting for cues from others, on what to think, especially since my employment status doesn't correspond to the magnitude of the claim and its pretty decisive resolution of a long-standing problem in the language that multiple people have set their hand to, unsuccessfully.
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