Okay, so, to explain other threads being locked, as mentioned
here and
here, I'd like to make a few points:
1) To Oligey, you were told
here by Dormouse559 (another of the Moderators) to take some time to cool down, maybe take some time to get a feel for the users you've interacted with, check out the wider Board, and then come back. This advice is given in more general form over in the House Rules, specifically in reference to
House Rule 1. First and foremost: Be Civil. (and in all fairness, it's good advice all round for all users when threads start to get a bit heated)
However, you seem to have made the choice to largely ignore this, instead creating three separate threads, largely doubling down on various individual claims and behaving in a particularly blunt manner, which at least
to me starts to break
House Rule 2. No trolling/flamebait and
House Rule 5. No spamming/flooding.
2) There's nothing preventing you from having an
open discussion about the
differences between English and Mandarin Chinese (or any other two languages). We're a forum for people whose hobby involves linguistics and, to varying degrees, despite likely not having formal education in the subject, many of us have spent several years a) reading up on the subject and how various languages work, b) tend to enjoy cross-linguistic comparisons (because it can be a big help when creating a conlang to know how other languages do different things), and c) have learned
how to research (meaning we don't have to be experts in a given field, but we can go out and find relevant resources to help research and discussion).
The main problem in the last four threads (including this one) is that there has been no discussion. The tone, especially in the most recent three threads (including this one) has been almost wholly "this is my claim, that's as far as I will go", which, fair, could be one way to open up discussion, but responses to later replies have been dismissive and sometimes even hostile (some of that could be due to misinterpreting what other people have read, but whatever, the tone continued)
3) There's been very little effort, on a forum that values open discussion on a number of topics, to
allow for open discussion. The first thread openly rejected input from users based on qualification (as Dormouse559 noted) and another refused to offer a translation of a source that was considered to be central to the argument (again, locking some users out of the discussion)
At this point, I will be issuing an official warning to Oligey, but also just again advise that perhaps take a break from posting, see what the rest of the Board is like, and if you want to have a discussion about this topic again, then please just open it up, in a civil manner, to the entire userbase. Some of us are clearly more than happy to talk about it, but the way these threads have progressed is beyond a joke at this point
(I will also be locking this thread)
