How many languages do you need to speak to be a linguist? -Gamerro *** Dear Gamerro, At minimum? One. Linguistics is a wide-open field – there are a whole helluva lot of ways to study language, and not all of them require polyglottery. A linguist who works as an expert witness in legal proceedings, for […]
I’m tired of the he/she gender debate. Why hasn’t anyone come up with a pronoun that means “she OR he”? Wouldn’t that be easier? –GenderEqualist *** Dear GE, Well, people have. But they don’t tend to stick. We’ve had dozens of contenders for “he or she” pronoun in English, from “ne” to ”thon” to “po” […]