There is beauty in the way the sounds of Cheyenne pattern to create parts of words, then how these parts of words combine to create words, then how these words connect with other words to make up utterances. There is beauty in the way so many Cheyenne words are descriptive of the objects they refer to. Linguists do not create this beauty within languages. They simply discover it. Any speaker of a language can become a student or or even a linguist of that language.
Linguists sometimes make mistakes in how they analyze things in a language.
Good linguists will be humble about this, willing to admit their mistakes, and trying to improve their understanding of the language. Ordinary speakers of a language sometimes make mistakes in how they analyze their own language. For instance, sometimes we speakers of English will guess at the history of an English word, based on what the word means to us today and perhaps how we think it sounds like some other word. But our guesses are sometimes wrong, and we can find out that they are wrong when someone studies the history of English and discovers the true history of the words we have guessed about. When we make a mistake guessing about the history of a word in our own language it is called a folk etymology .