Пол Кинг Бенедикт — американский учёный антрополог, психиатр, лингвист, специализировавшийся на языках Восточной и Юго-Восточной Азии. Известен своим предложением в 1942 году австро-таиской языковой семьи и реконструкцией прото-сино-тибетского и прото-тибето-бирманского языков. Более 20 лет практиковал психиатрию в Нью-Йорке. Является пионером этнопсихиатрии. Wikipedia
“Greenberg and I are simply playing different games”
Контексте: As I see it, Greenberg and I are simply playing different games and the contrast in our approaches reflects that basic difference. … I play one game and am intrigued by the other but I do keep wondering whether that other game has any rules or whether a computerized robot might not be rather better at it all. But long live both games!
Контексте: Welcome to the field of Southeast Asian linguistics! This welcome comes with a warning: Southeast Asia is the Bosnia of historical linguistics, with a lovely landscape strewn with land mines! … 'Look-alikes' (look less and less alike the more we know about them) abound, as in Malay bĕras and Wr. Tibetan 'bras for 'rice', as do also unlikely-appearing cognate sets such as Thai pu 'grandfather' and Japanese o:i 'nephew'.