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- noun A person who is not a
linguist .
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Examples
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After more thinking about the all thing, a nonlinguist and I think there's a semantic distinction between what your original correspondent said (1) and what he thought he should have said (2).
On all and all DC 2008
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Learning Latin is not the major task a nonlinguist might assume.
Banquets of the Black Widowers Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992- 1984
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If a nonlinguist reads nonspecialist articles about linguists such as the generally excellent piece by John Searle (NYR, June 29, 1972), he may get the impression that a linguist spends most of his time being concerned about rationalism (if he is a transformational grammarian) or behaviorism (if he is a structuralist).
Deep Language Lakoff, George 1973
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Selection of a nonlinguist as editor may well have brought a lively style.
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