The British are generally considered to be lazy linguists.

一般讲英国人被认为是很懒惰的语言学习者。

University of Texas, Austin linguist Justin Power.

得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的语言学家贾斯汀·鲍尔说到。

Linguists tend to avoid the term dialect altogether.

语言学家倾向于避免使用方言一词。

University of Munich linguist Jonathan Harrington.

慕尼黑大学的语言学家乔纳森·哈林顿说到。

Linguists say guys now uptalk, too.

语言学家们表示男生现在也掌握了种技能。

Linguists love to argue about it.

语言学家喜欢争论个问题。

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，以此方便讨论。

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

作为一位语言学家，我对语言的整体作用原理很感兴趣。

The British are generally considered to be lazy linguists. We just don't bother to learn another language.

英国人通常被认为在学习外语方面比较懒惰。我们只是不想去学另一种语言。

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

多，语言学家、语法怪才和学究们一直在为牛津逗号争论不休。

Sabine Little, a German linguist at the University of Sheffield, puts the emphasis elsewhere.

谢菲尔德大学德国语言学家扎比内·利特尔则把重点放在其他地方。

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的语言学家弗兰克·塞弗特说到。

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

语言学家发现，当我们意见不一致时，通常是循序渐进的。

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

一些语言学家甚至提出，三种语言可能都是某种相同语言的不同方言。

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

在很大程度上是因为语言学家与外行人不同，他们关注的是语法，而不是词汇。

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

一些语言学家甚至认为些活跃的轻女士正如语言学创造者一样推动了文化的演变。

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

我想找到语言学家们非常重视什么。

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一直在探寻个问题，却并没有达成多少共识。

Fransois Grosjean, a linguist at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland, emphasises necessity.

瑞士纳沙泰尔大学语言学家弗朗索瓦·格罗让强调了家族内传承语言的重要性。

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

语言学家认为些微小变化记录了常见口音的开端。