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b'A Warning for Linguists; by Keith Slater; From Volume I, Number 2, of Babel, April 1990 \\u2014 We in linguistics are well-accustomed, by now, to the fact that other disciplines\\u2014notably the \\u201chard\\u201d sciences\\u2014regularly upstage us and grab all the glory in the public eye. Normally, this doesn\\u2019t, and shouldn\\u2019t, bother us in the least, because aside from the fact that the other guys get most of the NSF grants (to say nothing of the SDI grants) the consequences of this are minimal. They do their thing; we do ours. Everybody gets tenure. Now, however, a movement is underway, particularly among astrophysicists, of which we cannot afford to not sit up and take notice. (Read by Keith Slater.)'