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- noun A scholar of
ethnolinguistics ; a linguistic anthropologist who studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
Etymologies
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Back-formation from ethnolinguistics.
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In his provocative work, Clichés To Live By And The Death Of The Sixties, Anaxamander O'Flaherty, a necro-ethnolinguist at the University of Altamont, suggests that the expression, "Everything is everything," succumbed to a natural death brought on by such factors as over-utilization, deterioration of relevance, and lack of adaptability to altered states of reality vis-à-vis the American experience.
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