Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences. (Samuel R. Delany)

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

Samuel R. Delany

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