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Thank you for this answer! I will hopefully be able to use it in the near future to trigger my favorite response from people: "Why do you know that?"
Haha yeah. Soon after becoming a linguist your first realization is how little everyone else knows about or cares to know about linguistics. Btw I edited to add a little more information if you're interested.