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		labster on Aug 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with on... A long time ago, a tribe of linguist PhDs settled on the island, because funding for the humanities dried up, and tenure track jobs vanished into myth. They were forced to settle on a remote island because it was the closest place with affordable housing.

ComposedPattern on Aug 13, 2023 [–]

Linguistics is in the social sciences, not the humanities.

Sharlin on Aug 14, 2023 | [–]

That's dependent on the country (and even the individual university?) In my experience linguistics are definitely under humanities.

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