Talk:Linguistic distance

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"practitioners of linguistics"

The opening paragraph includes this sentence: "Although they lack a uniform approach to quantifying linguistic distance between languages, practitioners of linguistics use the concept in a variety of linguistic situations...."

Why use the clunky term "practitioners of linguistics"? Why not just say "linguists"? Omc (talk) 00:51, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. I've changed it and done some additional copyediting. Largoplazo (talk) 01:59, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]