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Linguistics is scientific because of the approach taken by linguists to study language. Linguists will propose a hypothesis, make predictions, then test their hypothesis against samples from native speakers or a set of data taken from a language.

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"linguistics" is the study of languages, both natural and artificial , such are used in computer science. It is not a language at all. Scientific papers used to be written in Latin. Later, virtually all scientific papers were written in English, German, French and sometimes Russian and Italian. Now, more and more are written in English.

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