Re: Wry or self-deprecating quotes about linguistics

 Ar an fichiú lá de mí Lúnasa, scríobh HenHanna:

 > On 8/19/2024 12:41 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
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 > >   Ar an t-ochtú lá déag de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Tristan Miller:
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 > >   > 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.)
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 > > 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?

Yes. No.

 >  -----  Can an anagram amuse senile lexicographers?
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 > interesting linguists in movies:
 >                  Henry Higgins
 >                  and the one played by Jimmy Stewart
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 >                   the one played by Amy Adams
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