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Noam Chomsky, 95, ‘no longer able to talk’ as intellectual’s ‘health deteriorates’ (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] it_depends_man 3 points 6 months ago

Think of linguistics as "programming language but for languages".

Is it ones and zeros, or is it more human readable? The differences between those, on an academic level is linguistics.

There is a full wiki article that probably gives a better impression of it than I can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics_of_Noam_Chomsky

It's really weird and interesting!