Quotation

Bastard Tongues

a Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages
"I had assumed, as most of us do, that folk in academia were more knowledgeable and more intelligent than the average person. Now I began to realize that most of them just knew more dogma, sported a fancier vocabulary, and had more confidence in their own opinions than the rest of us."