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Article #2300Re: Esperanto
From: D Gary Grady
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1986 19:09
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1986 19:09
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In article <8073SPU@PSUVMA> SPU@PSUVMA.BITNET writes:
>. . . Zamenhof *did* speak many different languages to some degree, but
>this in no way alludes to his being a linguist. A linguist is a sort of
>language scientist--not a person who speaks many languages (although
>linguists do often speak many languages also). Being multilingual does
>not a linguist make, Mercutio.
We should remember that linguistics as a science is rather young. In
the 19th century, as I understand it, linguistics was largely confined
to what we would today call comparative linguistics and philology.
Zamenhof was probably as knowledgeable in the linguistics of his day as
many academic linguists. I do indeed know the difference between a
linguist and a polyglot.
--
D Gary Grady
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!panda!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Esperanto Message-ID: <2251@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Nov-86 14:09:48 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2251 Posted: Tue Nov 11 14:09:48 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Nov-86 21:49:22 EST References: <102@ritcv.UUCP> <2081@ihlpa.UUCP> <691@nike.UUCP> <2172@ecsvax.UUCP> <8073SPU@PSUVMA> Reply-To: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) Distribution: net Organization: Datalytics, Inc. Lines: 18 Summary: Linguistics is young science