I am sure SB has a real degree, Turnoi.

Since English is, as you have said, your second language, you can be forgiven for not recognizing an absence of nuance within SB's posts that clearly reveals his lie of having a degree in Applied Linguistics. Moreover, Fifi, it is rather ironic that you should think "Linguist" to be Turnoi since it was Turnoi himself who no doubt prompted SB to claim he had such a degree. That SB should quickly name drop Chomsky to back up his claim was somewhat amusing, since Chomsky's work was not in applied linguistics, but more amusing was how SB, like a school boy to his pigtailed crush, asked you if you knew the IPA - as if that would validate his lie.

So far, I've not recognized any posts as Turnoi's. I may have missed a few suspects, but Turnoi's writing is quite unique and even refreshing, not just because he usually cuts through the BS but also because his style reflects the commitment he has shown over the years to improving his own English. I also doubt that he would take the time from his retirement and days of self improvement to involve himself with many of the threads that occur here.

So yes, SB's degree is real. Well, his degree in fashion, that is. He never went beyond that claim years ago. It was only as a response to an argument that he made that claim recently. Now he believes it to in some way validate his (edited).