• TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    The problem is that speaking different languages is not even remotely the same thing as knowing anything about linguistics. People have no idea of how little they actually know about the use of language.

    • kattenluik@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      I’m honestly not sure about how people would go about learning a language without getting so involved that you inevitably catch all of that, I’ve never thought about it.