Lionel Vidal wrote:
To give you an example on a connected subject, most linguists specialised in some languages know them perfectly in their intimate mechanism and discuss relevently of the specific means used to convey meanings (which is kind of what jboske is all about), but are not users. Most of them are not even fluent in them.
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