Is there a word/term for someone who teaches themself?

Will u perhaps consider the value
of saying to your students: "here ARE some" or "here r some"
instead of "here IS some" or "here's some:" ?

Most of my fellow linguists, in fact, would say that it is absurd even to talk about a language changing for the better or the worse. When you have the historical picture before you, and can see how Indo-European gradually slipped into Germanic, Germanic into Anglo-Saxon, and Anglo-Saxon into the English of Chaucer, then Shakespeare, and then Henry James, the process of linguistic change seems as ineluctable and impersonal as continental drift. From this Olympian point of view, not even the Norman invasion had much of an effect on the structure of the language, and all the tirades of all the grammarians since the Renaissance sound like the prattlings of landscape gardeners who hope by frantic efforts to keep Alaska from bumping into Asia.

"some" can mean a measured amount so I don't see the problem.

Sure, so what's OmSigDAVID futzed about?

Your crystal-lattice structure is very sexagesimal!

Your luminous efficacy gives a color rendering index that's very commutative, meet me at Le Système International d'Unités for a late lunch!

"some" can mean a measured amount so I don't see the problem.

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Sure, but a partial list can be a measured amount.
In any case I had high hopes they were more than just words
to you, but I guess my hopes are dashed on the rocks of despair.

But, Chumly: thay were addressed to the Farmer.
I was reluctant to study his email.

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Bee Gees

It's only words, and words are all
I have to take your heart away
You think that I don't even mean
A single word I say
It's only words, and words are all
I have to take your heart away
It's only words, and words are all
I have to take your heart away

Thank u, Chumly.

The words referenced are not simply "jargon" which would equate to slang

Your crystal-lattice structure is very sexagesimal!

My Cartesian coordinates have imaginary numbers thinking about your wave-mechanical model. Meet me in the third quadrant next to the negative Y axis (that's minus 90 degrees from the positive X axis if you get lost).