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  • noun Plural form of linguist.

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Examples

  • That's a term linguists use to address of issue of '' where the vowels are made in the mouth, '' said Tom Purnell, assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

    News from www.pantagraph.com 2008

  • The difference between translators and linguists is sort of like the difference between pediatricians and biologists.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Lives of Translators 2009

  • By Abigail, December 4, 2009 @ 11: 17 pm oh, I meant to include - at one stage very early on in our white history, the Australian accent which developed very soon after first fleet arrived - around about 1830 (and the argument among linguists is that it has barely altered changed since) was once regarded by the Briitsh as de rigeur.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Because i’m hell busy. 2009

  • Incidentally: now that we've graduated, are we called linguists now?

    The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: Insufferable Happiness, Insufferable Pain tanita davis 2008

  • Sadly, we continue to give short shrift to language training and refuse to repeal the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy that removed capable linguists from the Defense Language Institute.

    Letters to the Editor 2005

  • Sadly, we continue to give short shrift to language training and refuse to repeal the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy that removed capable linguists from the Defense Language Institute.

    Letters to the Editor 2005

  • In the past two years, the Department of Defense has discharged 37 linguists from the Defense Language Institute for being gay.

    December 2003 2003

  • Our job as linguists is to remedy this ignorance: Bereiter and

    Academic Ignorance and Black Intelligence 1972

  • In addition, the "presumably lesser sacrifice" of reticence or of staying out of uniform has high costs both to individuals and national security: troops who can't speak openly to chaplains, psychologists, and doctors because of forced "reticence" cannot access the support services that straights rely on for mental and physical health, readiness, and morale; and the thousands of Americans who are fired or barred from service due to the policy have contributed to grave shortfalls in Arabic linguists, military police, and scores of other badly-needed specialists to fight our wars.

    Nathaniel Frank: Refuting the Latest Arguments Against Gay Troops 2009

  • Many of the other contributors have vastly greater expertise on this subject than I do, especially the big-name linguists John McWhorter and Deborah Tannen.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » NY Times Room for Debate Forum on the Use of Offensive Language 2010

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