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

俄罗斯外交部长发表份声明称这位成就卓著语言学家杰出代表。

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

这在很大程度上因为语言学家与外行人不同，他关注语法，而不词汇。

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

理查德·爱泼斯坦位语言学家，也罗格斯大学名教授。罗格斯大学位于新泽西州肯顿。

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

我想找到语言学家非常重视什么。

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

多年来，语言学家、语法怪才和学究直在为牛津逗号争论不休。

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

语言学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.

些语言学家甚至提出，这三种语言可能都某种相同语言不同方言。

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

些语言学家甚至认为这些活跃年轻女士正如语言学创造者样推动了化演变。

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

劳拉·怀特博士剑桥大学语言学家，她解释了这个词来源。

And these are the fun bits for the sociolinguists.

这些就对社会语言学家有意思部分了。

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

作为位语言学家，我对语言整体作用原理很感兴趣。

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样可爱。语言学家也不明所以。

Linguists tend to avoid the term dialect altogether.

语言学家倾向于避免使用方言词。

Other biologists, linguists and psychologists have probed the same question and have reached little consensus.

虽然其他各路生物学家、语言学家和心理学家也直在探寻这个问题，却并没有达成多少共识。

She retains a linguist's affection for their methodology.

作为语言学家，她喜欢这些作者编写书籍方法。

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

阿姆斯特丹大学和科隆大学语言学家弗兰克·塞弗特说到。

The Grimms were linguists, not novelists; their aim was preservation, not entertainment.

格林兄弟语言学家，不小说家，他目保存故事，而不娱乐。

I'm not a natural linguist in any way.

无论如何，我都不天生语言学家。

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

我 Erica Brozovsky 博士，社会语言学家和认证字迷。

University of Texas, Austin linguist Justin Power.

得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校语言学家贾斯汀·鲍尔说到。