• BigNote
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    11 months ago

    This mirrors the experience of anyone who has studied linguistics.

    Because everyone speaks at least one language fluently, they tend to assume that they understand how languages work, while having zero awareness of the fact that people have spent generations studying language and communication at the PhD level and that almost nothing about what we reflexively intuit about language actually holds true.

    And I say this as a purely amateur linguistics nerd who does not claim any real formal expertise in terms of academic credentials.