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minus-squareit_depends_man@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoThink of linguistics as “programming language but for languages”. Is it ones and zeros, or is it more human readable? The differences between those, on an academic level is linguistics. There is a full wiki article that probably gives a better impression of it than I can. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics_of_Noam_Chomsky It’s really weird and interesting!
Think of linguistics as “programming language but for languages”.
Is it ones and zeros, or is it more human readable? The differences between those, on an academic level is linguistics.
There is a full wiki article that probably gives a better impression of it than I can.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics_of_Noam_Chomsky
It’s really weird and interesting!