I hear he's a world renowned Professor of D'ni studies at Oxford. Somewhat funny story I've heard is he's got kind of a bad rep in the academic community for sending his graduate students on missions to Ages as part of their thesis research. Also D'ni studies seems to not be taken seriously so I've heard in academic circles. I think a lot of people especially in more prestigious circles see the whole restoration and D'ni phenomenon as something to be wary of, as if it's not even "real."
If any of you talk to him please post chat logs or recount your discussions. I'm curious what he has to say and if he has anything up his sleeve regarding any hidden information or plans for his work in the city.
Oh My! Everyone's just coming down this week, aren't they?
I'd heard something similar about him at college when I was studying the basics of language translations- regarding sending graduate students out into the wild- but I didn't realize he was a Professor of D'ni studies, or that he was using Ages for that.
How strange the world works, sometimes.
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Oooh, interesting! I used to work in academia myself for years, though in Chemistry, not anything where you'd come into contact with D'ni Studies much. But even I heard of PhD students in D'ni Studies not being allowed to publish in the proper journals for archaeology because the reviewers all thought D'ni wasn't real.
Perhaps some more finds and academics here in D'ni will finally put us on the scientific map. There is so much we can learn from D'ni and the Ages Linked to it, not only in archaeology but in the natural sciences as well.
Yali wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 3:19 am
Also D'ni studies seems to not be taken seriously so I've heard in academic circles. I think a lot of people especially in more prestigious circles see the whole restoration and D'ni phenomenon as something to be wary of, as if it's not even "real."
My own experiences can attest to this, being effectively blacklisted from mainstream academia following my time in Cambridge back in the early 2000's when I first pivoted my field of study towards D'ni. I'm now wondering if studying at Oxford instead would have allowed a few of those doors to remain open. Ah, the road not travelled.
In any case, his is a name I've seen cited more than once in my further reading. His methodology gives me cause for concern, but I'd be open for hearing more about his findings.
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There's a reason or two why D'ni isn't my primary language of expertise. Every time I brought up D'ni in casual conversation, folks always gravitated to the Games, and talks of ConLangs. Made a few friends who were interested in that during my time in college, but most people didn't really know about the Cavern or thought it real.
It does make me wonder how things would've transpired had things gone differently for the Cavern's restorations, for sure...
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I wonder how things would have gone, had those journals never been made into games. On the one hand, fewer people might know about D'ni; but D'ni might have been studied more seriously as an academic subject, were it not associated with a game on the Surface.
