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More evidence for my theory

DCblog: On doing linguistic research

I have only just discovered David Crystal, the eminent linguist and expert on the English language, has a blog. I was scanning some of his entries, and found this sentence in the middle of the above post:

If a friend of mine has a baby, I usually congratulate them on the birth of fresh data.

It’s a twist on my original theory, but it can still be classed as evidence in favour of the argument that linguists view children as something to study.

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