[DiogenesLamp]

Lol.. you can. That is even discussed on this very thread a couple of hundred posts ago 😉

I must have missed that. It feels odd, because I generally read every post in a thread.

There is a freeper who is named something like "Maidere" who has actual experience working with a scholar that does word analysis on old documents in an effort to determine who wrote them.

I asked her if a certain piece of writing which is believed to be James Madison could be submitted, and I believe she said they were already overloaded with work along this line.

I would still like to get that piece of writing analyzed. There are good reasons to believe it was James Madison, not the least of which is that the information presented was something that not many other people than him would know, and he also used the pseudonym "Publius."

It's actually a smoking gun on the "natural born citizen" issue.

Here is an excerpt.

[Bikkuri]

Let me know if you are able to make any headway with it 🙂

[thecodont]

There is a freeper who is named something like "Maidere" who has actual experience working with a scholar that does word analysis on old documents in an effort to determine who wrote them.

You might be looking for Freeper "mairdie."

[mairdie]

Definitely overloaded, Diogenes. Mac is an emeritus professor and has moved into retirement digs. He mostly works on his Shakespeare scholarship these days. He was one of the editors of the complete works. A lot of academics work on linguistic analysis, but my experience with the programs that they use for analysis is that they’re amateurish, with poorly designed interfaces. Definitely graduate work for people looking for a degree in a hurry and then out into their fields.

I found the first professor I worked with, but Mac found me. For your purposes, it’s probably a matter of writing a brilliant query letter and searching out the current major scholars, explaining what the benefits are to them to work on this research. Finding my first academic partner was by looking for one of the top researchers and getting an introduction from him to another of the top researchers.