Common wisdom—an oxymoron if ever there was one—has it that linguistics and linguists themselves have a bit of a reputation problem. Are linguists boring? Incomprehensible? Pointless? Evil? The contention of this paper is—given that perception is nine-tenths of reality—unless we ask, we’ll never know. — The Speculative Grammarian
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How linguistics got her groove back
Zipf's Law 
Know what? Evil is in the eye of the beholder. Boring is something that we generally later understand is fascinating and I am always right. And I’m back so watch out 😉
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Hah–my problem is the opposite! I seem interesting at first–until people realize that I’m boring. 🙂
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Nope – I’m always right … I ain’t falling on my sword again – it just gets too bluddy messy!
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The real question is what does it really mean?
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I think the “survey” row results are biased. By adding it as a question after already annoying the survey participants, “survey” mean was meant to to annoy.
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Observer effect gone terribly wrong 🙂
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I enjoyed some wit in the story, I enjoyed it without understanding what’s underneath . Rudimentary English and zero linguistics bases probably, for it can’t be because I’m a moron, can it ?
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I’m thinking not. 🙂 Lotsa inside jokes.
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