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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: Esperanto
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Date: Tue, 11-Nov-86 14:09:48 EST
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Summary: Linguistics is young science

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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