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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate? Why is the r/linguistics change worse than it looks?

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Because not even professional linguists would be able to keep up with that, or even want to deal with it. The field is huge; anything language is Linguistics. For example you might be well informed in one specific field, but unable to even parse info from another.

Linguists often have a big disdain towards academicism, since they're dealing with something that most people in the world do - use language.

And for the laymen, well... the sub is not for them any more, period.