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On 8/19/2024 12:41 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> 
>   Ar an t-ochtú lá déag de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Tristan Miller:
> 
>   > 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.)
> 
> Part of the difficulty with this is that Chomsky and e.g. Boas have and had
> egos the size of North America. I do think one needs a robust self-confidence
> to be good in the field, above and beyond what those around you would support,
> something which will not make people quick to self-deprecation.
> 


Lunasa  is  August?    is it related to Lunes, Lunar, Looney?



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interesting linguists in movies:
                  Henry Higgins
                  and the one played by Jimmy Stewart

                   the one played by Amy Adams