> I find linguistics one of those topics that I have questions about but don't know enough to use the correct terms to find an answer. I can't help answer your

> I find linguistics one of those topics that I have questions about but don't know enough to use the correct terms to find an answer. I can't help answer your questions, unfortunately, but I agree completely that it's difficult for outsiders to even formulate the right questions. I find linguistics to be fascinating, in that language really is foundational to what it means to be human, and yet it seems like we still only understand so little about it. And linguistics is such a huge and broad field that is so complex once you scratch the surface, I feel like outsiders (like myself) just have a very poor grasp about what it's about. And that's only compounded by the fact that we all, as 'expert users' of languages on a daily basis, feel like we have some intuition or knowledge into how it works that very often turns out to be completely incorrect when studied rigorously. So we're often not even aware of just how ignorant we are. In many ways modern linguistics is such a young field too. I can only expect that we have exciting times ahead... I only wish it were taught more often in schools; I wish I'd studied it myself. As a sort of 'meta' subject, it seems like it'd be useful for young people to think more about what it means to communicate.