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The articles in this volume, like those that came before, are meant to be tongue-in-cheek and therefore should not be taken as attacks on any individual or group of individuals in linguistics or any other line of work, except maybe the documentary linguists and sociolinguists.1

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1 Just kidding!2 documentary linguists are beginning to replace sociolinguists as the whipping boys and girls of satirical linguistics, but we only kid because we care!

2 Recent research (see for example, Dysart, Earl oF., “How much do they really know?”, Footnotes Quarterly 42.3, p.36-41) has shown that most socio- and documentary linguists can’t or won’t follow recursive footnotes, can’t or won’t read past lengthy in-line citations, and can’t or won’t understand recursion2. So, we actually do mean it.3

3 Except in Swaziland, Texas, Uzbekistan, Paraguay, Idaho, Djibouti, and where otherwise prohibited by law.

4 Though we have considered the possibility that they only gave us permission to make us stop robo-calling, spam-emailing, and auto-telegramming them. Whatever gets the job done!

5 But only in socio- and documentary linguists.

6 Except in the case of bloviating gas bags; those may be skewered or burned at will.

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