676. David Crystal: Let's Talk - How English Conversation Works
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The Difference Between Linguists and Pedantics
Do you find that people are very passionate about language? Do you never take an opinion on language? Does nothing ever kind of trigger you in terms of the way people use language? "I'm human as well as being a linguist. So I've got my likes and dislikes," he says. But there's only one occasion, one type of occasion, when dislike influences the way in which I would operate as a linguist" 'When people who are professionals in language lose their professionalism and don't use the language in the way that they should be doing,' Luke adds.
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