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|    Tristan Miller to All    |
|    Wry or self-deprecating quotes about lin    |
|    18 Aug 24 18:21:47    |
      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)    |
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