But then you're not a linguist, are you, Tucker?

你不是语家吧，塔克？

Linguists tend to avoid the term dialect altogether.

语家倾向于避免使一词。

Linguists love to argue about it.

语家喜欢争论这个问题。

University of Munich linguist Jonathan Harrington.

慕尼黑大的语家乔纳森·哈林顿说到。

I'm not a natural linguist in any way.

无论如何，我都不是天生的语家。

And these are the fun bits for the sociolinguists.

这些就是对会语家有意思的部分了。

Linguists who take this approach to language place great importance on grammatical blank.

采取这种语法的语家非常重视语法什么。

Linguists give vowels names to make it easier to talk about them.

语家为很多元音字母命了名，以此来便讨论。

University of Texas, Austin linguist Justin Power.

得克萨大汀分校的语家贾汀·鲍尔说到。

Linguists say guys now uptalk, too.

语家们表示男生现在也掌握了这种技能。

Babies are often described as cute as a button. Language experts don't know why.

婴儿经常被形容为像纽扣一样可爱。语家也不明所以。

As a linguist, I'm interested in how language functions generally.

作为一位语家，我对语的整体作原理很感兴趣。

But many linguists are strident anti-Chomskyans.

但许多语家是尖锐的反乔姆基主义者。

The linguists think these small changes document the very beginnings of a common accent.

语家认为这些微小变化记录了常见口音的开端。

I am a linguist, not a lawyer, but I disagree with her.

我是一名语家，不是律师，但我不同意她的观点。

This is largely because linguists, unlike laypeople, focus on grammar, not vocabulary.

这在很大程度上是因为语家与外行人不同，他们关注的是语法，而不是词汇。

Some linguists even suggest that all three may be dialects of the same language.

一些语家甚至提出，这三种语可能都是某种相同语的不同。

Frank Seifert, a linguist at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Cologne.

阿姆特丹大和科隆大的语家弗兰克·塞弗特说到。

I'm Dr. Erica Brozovsky, sociolinguist and certified word nerd.

我是 Erica Brozovsky 博士，会语家和认证的文字迷。

Linguists have found that when we disagree it often goes in steps.

语家发现，当我们意见不一致时，通常是循序渐进的。