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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 06 January 2014 01:17:40AM 0 points [-]

The quote is about fluency, not accent. The first sentence is correct. The second sentence is the hilarious part; I read it as "linguists are generally idiots." It is harder for me to survey linguists than the literature, but in my limited attempt, it appears correct.