from a student homework assignment

They were asked to do an observation connected to Deborah Tannen's work on male and female conversational rituals. One student wryly wrote in a footnote about students who sit behind her in class:

"...they spent five minutes debating whether or not 'linguistical' is a word. They all agreed that it sounded like it should be a word, but they couldn't figure out why it wasn't in their computer's dictionary. They concluded that they were just smarter than the computer because they knew a word that it didn't know. My opinion might differ slightly from theirs."