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单词 unlinguistic
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unlinguisticadj.

Brit. /ˌʌnlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌənˌlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, linguistic adj.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + linguistic adj.
1. Not skilled or accomplished in language or languages, esp. foreign languages; not linguistically gifted.
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1875 Fraser's Mag. June 777 German merchants coming to England..learned it [sc. English] so easily that..there was no necessity for us to puzzle our unlinguistic brains with German.
1916 Financial Times 8 Feb. 2/2 Interpreters will be at the service of the unlinguistic foreigner.
1957 Montana Standard 2 Dec. 4/4 To the unlinguistic ear it sounded like this:..Interpreter: ‘Racketty-rax boum bah’.
1983 Western Folklore 42 209 To call people musical or unmusical may be as irrelevent [sic] as to describe people as linguistic or unlinguistic.
2. Not related to language or to linguistics as a discipline; not linguistic in nature.
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the mind > language > linguistics > [adjective] > not
unlinguistic1910
1910 Univ. Illinois Bull. School Educ. 8 114 Composition, as taught by the old method, is a form of theoretical grammar, and a very unlinguistic one.
1960 Amer. Speech 35 215 An ‘unlinguistic’ stance is evidenced in the view that some variants embody language ‘corruption’.
1962 Y. Olsson in F. Behre Contrib. Eng. Syntax 98 Unlinguistic speculations.
2012 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 27 Aug. (Editorial section) 7 You now have in your head something that is identifiably ‘language’, not merely thoughts that somehow seem unlinguistic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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