The alienation of linguistics

Linguistics alienate me. Horrify me. The whole works. I have to write a small essay about the development of but as a case of grammaticalization, from preposition to discourse marker. Yes I know, no one cares, tell me about it, neither do I.

And it alienates me, this entire concept of grammaticalization or even linguistics. In it, there are no humans, no emotions, no nothing. Only words like "pragmatic" and "desemanticization" and "diachronic" and "epistemic" and "auxiliary". Names like diseases. No wonder I get sick of it.

Linguistics are fun for those who like it, the Hoppers, the Traugotts, the Lehmanns of this world. But not for the X's, the unknowns, the lovers like me.

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