• gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 hours ago

    They actually are the reverse of irked, cause like an archaeologist finding a new artefact, they find the cool thing of evidence of the shift of language.

    Not errors, evidence of change

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      2 hours ago

      What’s your opinion of the word “neologologist” and are you proposing that these “most linguists” are in fact described by it? And what do you think their opinion of it would be? ;p

      • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        29 minutes ago

        I would say that most aren’t, but some definitely are

        It’s a study of both the past and the present, many study both, many study just one, some flip-flop between