I’ll bet the research on the phonemes (I almost wrote ‘phenomes’) has commercial potential.
No financial potential for us. This is purely love and a compulsion to right a wrong. I come out of the military/industrial complex, so we do nitty to the 9th degree. The goal was to collapse massive amounts of data into something that Mac could grock almost instantly. That’s always my goal. My husband programmed the data reduction and, comparing the output with what we see coming out of a different academic research attribution tool, the difference in grocking is simply staggering.
Next Christmas I’ll make all my databases public so that other researchers can come in and try to cream us. I think that’s fair research. The first research, in 2000, wasn’t handled very nicely on the other side. We came out just as someone was trying to resell at vast profit a handwritten Moore copy of the poem. Don’s book did him in. So he hired a paranormal investigator to write a 2 part article attacking us. The weight of Moore is just unbelievable. Authors can’t get publishers to commit to Henry’s authorship because readers will search on Moore. As a result, the new book sales would be reduced if the book doesn’t turn up on search. I’ve created an NBC book from my antique illustration collection that I’ll try to get out next year, with the author being -Henry Livingston, not Clement Moore-. After all, -and- is used all the time! Why not -not-? And I’ll try to price it at cost just to get the word out.
It’s all about passion. I love FR because the people are passionate. I can disagree on points, but really love the passion I read.
Best, Mary