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Linguistics
Linguistics is the science of language.
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Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
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― The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teach us about life, the world, and, especially in the case of linguistics, the workings of the human mind.
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― In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
― In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
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