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From: Tristan Miller <Tristan.Miller@umanitoba.ca>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Wry or self-deprecating quotes about linguistics
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 18:21:47 -0500
Organization: University of Manitoba Department of Computer Science
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Dear all,

Samuel Johnson famously defined a lexicographer as "a harmless drudge". 
Have any other lexicographers or linguists made similarly 
self-deprecating statements about their profession?  (I tried some web 
searches but came up empty-handed; ChatGPT provided some real zingers 
from the likes of Ferdinand de Saussure, Noam Chomsky, and David 
Crystal, alas all hallucinated.)

Regards,
Tristan