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♥♥♥♥♥ Funny and devastating look into the culture of linguistics
You do not need to be a linguist to enjoy this funny, barbed, and acerbic look at the practice and culture of linquistics. If you are interested in studying linguistics, this is not a bad place to start. If you are a linguist, you will alternately wince and cheer at Pullum's observations.

And if you want to know whether one of the Eskimo languages has more words for snow than, say, English, here's the definitive and surprising answer.
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