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The explanation of something by a linguist, typically to people that do not know about or study linguistics, in a manner regarded as condescending. Usually, the linguist interrupts the conversation to annoyingly point to and explain a linguistic phenomena that just appeared in the conversation, but that everyone intuitively knows about.
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