i never call myself a linguist but the thing that makes me feel the most like a linguist is i seem to have unconsciously built an ever growing list of party tricks for when people have Language Discussions
2
0
61
4K
9
some of them include: - gricean maxims - more people have been to Russia than I have - if the person is talking about how their speech is considered wrong by others, getting them to overtly recognize habitual be as a not-found-in-Gen-AmE grammatical richness
@ManishEarth Challenging people to find English modal particles.