Re: Wry or self-deprecating quotes about linguistics

On 8/19/2024 12:41 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

   Ar an t-ochtú lá déag de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Tristan Miller:
   > Samuel Johnson famously defined a lexicographer as "a harmless drudge". Have
  > any other lexicographers or linguists made similarly self-deprecating
  > statements about their profession? (I tried some web searches but came up
  > empty-handed; ChatGPT provided some real zingers from the likes of Ferdinand
  > de Saussure, Noam Chomsky, and David Crystal, alas all hallucinated.)
 Part of the difficulty with this is that Chomsky and e.g. Boas have and had
egos the size of North America. I do think one needs a robust self-confidence
to be good in the field, above and beyond what those around you would support,
something which will not make people quick to self-deprecation.
 

Lunasa  is  August?    is it related to Lunes, Lunar, Looney?
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interesting linguists in movies:
                  Henry Higgins
                  and the one played by Jimmy Stewart
                   the one played by Amy Adams