It's always fun when academic-type characters show up and the author actually writes them properly. There are a lot of connections between that language analysis pot and ongoing discourse regarding the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging for lie detection. Just like in real life, it's obviously not admissible in court and it arguably violates an individual's 5th amendment rights, but that's something that legal scholars should talk about rather than being the purview of scientists, let alone magical glottochronologists. Anyway, I really liked this chapter! Thank you for translating it.