A Venery of Terms—Part III
Collective Nouns for Linguists
X. Altaysh & Uvlarr Ksss
X. Quizzit Korps Center for Advanced Collaborative Studies
Of course one may refer to a group of linguists as “a group of linguists”, but then one clearly misses out on the subtle distinctions between kinds of linguists, and the generic joy of collective nouns—a topic in which humans take all too keen an interest.
Gaggle is probably never entirely amiss when referring to an excess of linguists (generally held by civilized folk as more than three in any one location; perhaps four if the host is generous and the ventilation is adequate). Finer distinctions and greater euphony are to be had with the proper terms of venery, however.
We have opened the vaults of our athenæum so that we may share our trove of collected collective treasures. As with any linguistic act, the venereal human tongue is endlessly creative, and thus many groups have multiple collective nouns.
The third part of three is presented below.
- A cage of animal language researchers
- An association of autosegmentalists
- A squall of child language researchers
- A binarity of classical generative phonologists
- A protest of community interpreters
- A nybble of computational linguists
- A booth of conference interpreters
- An adjacency pair of conversation analysts
- An alignment of corpus linguists
- A medley of dialectologists
- An typo of editors
- An uncertainty of epistemologists
- An isolation of Euskaraists
- A gang of forensic linguists
- A rant of generativists
- An exhaustion of graduate students
- A reconstruction of historical linguists
- A LOL of internet linguists
- A volume of lexicographers
- A company of linguistics PIs
- A hoard of malapropists
- A phase of minimalists
- An agglutination of morphologists
- A snerg of neologists
- A ranking of optimality theorists
- A tie of optimality theorists
- A correction of paper reviewers
- A [+bundle] of DF phonemicists
- An idiom chunk of phraseologists
- An annoyance of prescriptivists
- A scan of psycholinguists
- A projection of representationalists
- A case of Russian scholars
- A network of semanticists
- A sign of semioticians
- A ktb of Semitic scholars
- A pharynx of Semiticists
- A
of sign linguists
- A mix of SLA researchers
- A lab of sociolinguists
- A contrast of structuralists
- A density of theoretical linguists
- A command of TPR instructors
- A fuzzy match of computer-assisted translators
- A type of ologists
- A particle of verbalists
