What misunderstandings do netizens in China have about language and linguistics?

Linguistics. What? What is there to learn?

First of all, linguistics has both basic research and applied research. A large part of the work of basic research is to accurately describe the face of language, including what it looks like now, what it looks like in history, and why it changed from that to this. Understanding these is research, because understanding human history is what human beings should do. Linguistics is a part of this matter, similar to archaeology (in fact, many linguistic breakthroughs are closely related to archaeology).

Learning linguistics can help people learn languages, including mother tongue and foreign language. The current Chinese teaching materials and grammar system are not out of thin air, but also research results. In the past few decades, foreign language teaching has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the teaching system has also made great progress, which did not come out of thin air. Linguistic research is of great help to psychology and even medicine, and vice versa. Aphasia and Arez Harmo's disease are both related to language. Linguistics not only talks about words all day, but also does experiments. He just sticks wires to people's heads every day to watch EEG. Why did sogou and later input methods work well? Because there is a thesaurus. How did the thesaurus come from? Research achievements of engineering vocabulary. Linguists contribute to every input method. Another example is the Belt and Road Initiative. Language exchange and language planning are very important, which is also an important reason why language planning has been so hot in recent years. Let me start with a feeling that everyone is unhappy. China is very sensitive! Porcelain was not sensitive at first, but how did it become sensitive later? Because there are corpora, follow-up studies and public opinion monitoring. Linguistics is also the reason behind this (well, don't hit me)

. These strange words on the internet, in fact, are all known above, and they are monitored as soon as they come out. I just don't care that there are many misunderstandings about linguistics. I think this is a good thing. Because it represents that society pays more and more attention to linguistics, especially that movie, which makes linguists a savior. In the past, the public didn't care about linguistics at all because they were more concerned about their own lives. Now that life is good and I have more leisure, let's take a look. Hey, there is such a study. I don't want to be a familiar subject such as mathematical physics, or biomedical science, or intuitive art such as sports and dance art. Linguistics has the characteristics of both sociology and natural science, but what I study seems mysterious, and some even seem boring. However, since so many people pay attention to it, I think it must be getting closer to the public and eliminating the misunderstanding of linguistics.