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pseudolinguistic

Definitions

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  • adjective pertaining to pseudo-linguistics. Deprecating of scholarship thought to purport to be linguistic but falling short of the necessary standards
  • adjective quasilinguistic. Having some qualities similar to language, but not quite amounting to language in the narrow sense.

Etymologies

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pseudo- +‎ linguistic. In use in sense (1.) from the early 20th century.

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Examples

  • I also think there is an important difference between sharing conjectures for discussion on a blog or in a forum versus wasting trees to write a manifesto of your pseudolinguistic doctrine for you to enforce on disbelievers.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • I also think there is an important difference between sharing conjectures for discussion on a blog or in a forum versus wasting trees to write a manifesto of your pseudolinguistic doctrine for you to enforce on disbelievers.

    A ramble about the Nostratic pronominal system 2007

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