Oh yeah! Almost forgot! I need to take fundamental linguistics, consumer psychology and neuroanatomy.

哦，对了！差点儿忘了！我想修基础语，消费者心理，还有神经解剖。

A Russian foreign minister's statement described the accomplished linguist as an outstanding representative.

俄罗斯外交部长发表的一份声明称这位成就卓著的语家是杰出的代表。

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。

Richard Epstein is a linguist and professor at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.

理查德·爱泼斯坦是一位语家，也是罗斯大的一名教授。罗斯大位于新泽西州的肯顿。

I want to find what linguists place a great importance on.

我想找到语家们非常重视什么。

For years, linguists, grammar nerds, and pedants have battled over the Oxford comma.

多来，语家、语法怪才和究们一直在为牛津逗号争论不休。

Assistant professor in linguistics. Tall, very beautiful.

她是语系的助教，又高又漂亮。

Semiotics. The study of signs and symbols. It's a branch of philosophy related to linguistics.

符号，研究符号和象征，是语基本理论的分支。

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

语家为很多元音字母命了名，以此来方便讨论。

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方。

Some linguists even suggest that creaky young ladies are evolving our culture as linguistic innovators.

一些语家甚至认为这些活跃的轻女士正如语创造者一样推动了文化的演变。

Another subfield of cultural anthropology is linguistics, as I said just now.

文化人类的另一个子领域是语，就像我刚才说的。

Dr Laura Wright, a historical linguist from the University of Cambridge, explains its origins.

劳拉·怀特博士是剑桥大的语家，她解释了这个词的来源。

And these are the fun bits for the sociolinguists.

这些就是对社会语家有意思的部分了。

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

作为一位语家，我对语的整体作用原理很感兴趣。

The unusual answer involves a dictionary and a professor of linguistics.

这个不同寻常的答案涉及一本词典和一位语教授。

This is something I have read in many books about phonetics, linguistics.

这是我在很多关于语音、语的书中读到的。

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。

Linguists tend to avoid the term dialect altogether.

语家倾向于避免使用方一词。

In linguistics, it is commonly noted that speech is primary and writing secondary.

语上普遍认为，先有“说”，才有“写”。