From: Tristan.Miller@umanitoba.ca   
      
   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   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)