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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah but what exactly does that entail? Studying over old books and figure out how the language has changed?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Think of linguistics as "programming language but for languages".

Is it ones and zeros, or is it more human readable? The differences between those, on an academic level is linguistics.

There is a full wiki article that probably gives a better impression of it than I can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics_of_Noam_Chomsky

It's really weird and interesting!