LINGUISTICS
LINGUISTICS is the study of LANGUAGE. If you are creating the SCAFFOLDING for something you are about to build, and you are building something conceptual (idea, publication, software, database), you may need to start with the LANGUAGE or LINGUISTICS.
It is amazing how often we "disagree" because we interpret the same statements differently and our attempts to clarify increase our confusion.
I wrote a while ago on 10-6-15: What the FLOCK? Communication is a bidirectional activity. …
LINGUISTICS today may include concepts that didn't exist when we first learned about LANGUAGE: LOL, IRL.
I don't know the relation but a Google image search for LINGUISTICS quotes also found: