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Because they are language professionals, who enjoy studying languages and packing as much power as they can into a language -- computer or human.
by harryjo 12y ago
Because they are language professionals, who enjoy studying languages and packing as much power as they can into a language -- computer or human.
- long 12y agoIn my experience, linguists are not terribly punny, though -- what accounts for this difference? (FWIW, my first-hand experience has mainly been with psycholinguists and functional programming folks)
- taejo 12y agoLinguists are language analysts whereas programming language people are language creators; perhaps this explains why the later create more wordplay?