linguistics
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tɪks noun ( used with a singular verb )
the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.
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| (functioning as singular) historical linguistics See also descriptive linguistics the scientific study of language | |
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Linguistics
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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Example sentences
The bigger problem might be the linguistics level of your students.
There, five people with doctorates in linguistics dream up excuses for folks to repeat before suddenly dropping a date gone sour.
Linguistics experts believe that endangered languages around the world are slipping out of our heritage at the rate of one a day.
Tags: artificial intelligence, cognition, linguistics.
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