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Eric Baker, a retired Air Force linguist who volunteers at the Pattaya VFW office, said he had been following news coverage of the Lincoln’s lengthy deployment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
By examining bodies of written work, linguists can track the rise of such language quirks, says Kimberly Becker, a linguist and co-host of the “Women Talkin’ ‘Bout AI” podcast.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
Michael Hahn, a linguist based in Saarbrücken, set out to answer that question with Richard Futrell from the University of California, Irvine.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2026
A gifted linguist, she soon mastered Mayan dialects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
“I’m an even worse linguist than he is. But I’m certain before the final reports are turned in, all the journals will be combed for additional data.”
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
That sentence structure is popping up everywhere these days, and linguists tie its popularity to AI models.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
In earlier research, linguists tried to avoid similarities between related or nearby languages by selecting samples from distant regions.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026
The show has not officially aired in Japan and South Korea, but dedicated linguists have translated star duo Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie's countless interviews into Korean.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
But it’s clear that the phenomenon is not just the tweedy concern of linguists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
Government linguists devised the modified Roman alphabet adopted in 1928 by Turkey for writing Turkish, as well as the modified Cyrillic alphabets designed for many tribal languages of Russia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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