"pseudo-linguistics" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From pseudo- + linguistics. First attested 1962 (OED).\nModelled on the earlier adjective pseudolinguistic (as in \"pseudolinguistic science\", attested 1915).",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Pseudoscience",
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          "ref": "Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 2 May 2004, R7",
          "text": "Roy Medvedev deals with the less known but even odder pseudo-linguistics of Nikolai Marr."
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        "Work purporting to fall under the scholarly field of linguistics but falling short of its standards; linguistic pseudo-scholarship."
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          "linguistics"
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          "pseudo-scholarship"
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          "word": "pseudolinguistics"
        }
      ],
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        "uncountable"
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  "word": "pseudo-linguistics"
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  "etymology_text": "From pseudo- + linguistics. First attested 1962 (OED).\nModelled on the earlier adjective pseudolinguistic (as in \"pseudolinguistic science\", attested 1915).",
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