the.com/linguist
Not someone who speaks ten languages, but someone who knows why your sentence sounds weird.
means Someone who studies the structure, sound, and meaning of language itself, rather than necessarily speaking many of them.
from From Latin 'lingua,' meaning tongue — the same root that gave us 'language' and 'lingo.' The '-ist' suffix tacked on marks a practitioner or specialist, so a linguist is literally a 'tongue person,' someone professionally devoted to the tongue in its sense of speech rather than anatomy.
- common myth
- most cannot order coffee in twelve languages
- actual job
- reverse-engineers the rules nobody taught you
- career hazard
- corrects your grammar, then apologizes, then does it again
- job security
- every toddler proves language is infinitely weird