I HYPOTHETICALLY  LINGUISTICALLY ANALYZED SOMETHING FROM TIM BURTON'S ALICE IN WONDERLAND *headdesk*.

( My hypothetical findings.. )

It seems that in Linguistics' apparently sordid past...a linguist ate a baby or did something equally heinous. When the topic of linguistics comes up in a professor's lecture, the professor adopts a scathing tone. There must have been some serious baby-eating going on.