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CrystalLangUser on May 27, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016)

Something that HN readers often don't understand is that being an engineer or having advanced understanding of a field does not equate having an understanding of linguistics, despite being a native speaker of a language. Merely striking out letters from words doesn't make a language or its spelling any simpler...

gizmo686 on May 27, 2018 [–]

Not sure if that is directed at me, but I did minor in linguistics.

CrystalLangUser on May 27, 2018 | [–]

Certainly not at you, but at the comment you replied to and a lot of comments whenever linguistics-related topics come up here.

gizmo686 on May 28, 2018 | | [–]

Thanks, although I am looking back at my comment and hitting myself for transcribing the vowel as [ɜ].

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