But then you're not a linguist, are you, Tucker?

你不是语言学家吧，塔克？

I want to find what linguists place a great importance on.

我想找到语言学家们非常重视什么。

Linguists tend to avoid the term dialect altogether.

语言学家倾向于避免使用方言一词。

Linguists love to argue about it.

语言学家喜欢争论这个问题。

University of Munich linguist Jonathan Harrington.

慕尼黑大学语言学家乔纳森·哈林顿说到。

I'm not a natural linguist in any way.

无论如何，我都不是天生语言学家。

And these are the fun bits for the sociolinguists.

这些就是对社会语言学家有意思部分了。

She retains a linguist's affection for their methodology.

作为语言学家，她喜欢这些作者编写书籍方法。

Linguists give vowels names to make it easier to talk about them.

语言学家为很多元音字母命了名，以此来方便讨论。

University of Texas, Austin linguist Justin Power.

得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校语言学家贾斯汀·鲍尔说到。

A Russian foreign minister's statement described the accomplished linguist as an outstanding representative.

俄罗斯外交部长发表一份声明称这位成就卓著语言学家是杰出代表。

Babies are often described as cute as a button. Language experts don't know why.

婴儿经常被形容为像纽扣一样可爱。语言学家也不明所以。

Linguists say guys now uptalk, too.

语言学家们表示男生现在也掌握了这种技能。

As a linguist, I'm interested in how language functions generally.

作为一位语言学家，我对语言整体作用原理很感兴趣。

For years, linguists, grammar nerds, and pedants have battled over the Oxford comma.

多年来，语言学家、语法怪才和学究们一直在为牛津逗号争论不休。

I am a linguist, not a lawyer, but I disagree with her.

我是一名语言学家，不是律师，但我不同意她观点。

The linguists think these small changes document the very beginnings of a common accent.

语言学家认为这些微小变化记录了常见口音开端。

This is largely because linguists, unlike laypeople, focus on grammar, not vocabulary.

这在很大程度上是因为语言学家与外行人不同，他们关注是语法，而不是词汇。

Frank Seifert, a linguist at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Cologne.

阿姆斯特丹大学和科隆大学语言学家弗兰克·塞弗特说到。

Some linguists even suggest that all three may be dialects of the same language.

一些语言学家甚至提出，这三种语言可能都是某种相同语言不同方言。