(July 14, 2012 at 7:28 pm)Polaris Wrote:(July 14, 2012 at 6:34 pm)Hovik Wrote: Well, you'd be wrong. Linguistics primarily studies speech, not written language. However, because we can't actively study the speech of people who are long dead, we use linguistic methods to analyze written language to give us insights about the speech of those who wrote the documents. Linguistics works hand-in-hand with archaeology and anthropology to determine past life-ways and language use.
It's really kind of funny how completely wrong you are sometimes.
For someone who claims to be a linguist, you need to read the dictionary.
1. Dictionaries only report usage.
2. He is a linguist. He is actually a scientist on language. He know what his own field does.
3. Your willful ignorance is almost blinding.
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