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So you know a linguist

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So you know a linguist Presentation Transcript

So youknow alinguist… Jodie Martin twitter.com/jodie__martin slideshare.net/jayelem About.me/jodiemartin

Did you ask them howmany languages theyspeak?

Did they forward you this presentation?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/1558028479_1fb667e2f2_You see there’s two types of linguists.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elo/3683835341/Type 1: Speaks many languages (also called a ‘polyglot’)

And often features in science fiction

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gzap/2997986634/sizes/l/in/photostream/Yeah, a lot of us get into linguistics because we learnt or speak another language.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5001399117_7651e6384d_b.jpg But we get asked that question all the time.

ALL. THE. TIME. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohhector/2366343607/in/photostream/

So it might help if you understand there’s another type of linguist http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/1558028479_1fb667e2f2_o

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcolwell/2854702332/sizes/l/in/photostream/ language Type 2: a scientist

We studypronunciationhttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2071/2088252449_ddfc4c2733_b.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eelend/5079913/sizes/o/We study writing

http://www.flickr.com/photos/surrealmuse/4757004/sizes/z/in/photostream / We study words and word histories

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4260719610_35b63d043f_b.jpg We study old languages

We study new ways ofcommunicationhttp://leepro.deviantart.com/art/IM-language-100019257

http://www.flickr.com/photos/benrussell/1477899923/ We study teacher talk

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluesquarething/429And student writing

We study successful communicationhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/pricklebush/224674200/

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3318/4584323789_a060dc2417_o.jpgWe study not so successfulcommunication

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oLbtTQY0cnE/TIgcnggvQyI/AAAAAAAAAF8/jlDFC95ZWE8/s320/darth-vader-face.jpg Most linguists aren’t grammar nazis

Think of us aslanguage hippies http://www.flickr.com/photos/nopiedra/2266078656/

Who get REALLY excited over an aspirated p, or the history of a word, or using “Dude” as a gender-neutral greeting. http://www.flickr.com/photos/fussylittlengine/3946695040/

REALLY EXCITEDhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/carplips/1704434626/

So give a linguist a hug.They probably need it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thecaucas/3849178561/

Джереми Сенько, inorbit at The Moon Grammar Nazi & proud! but, I don't subscribe to that hypocritical manual to which the masses subscribe... the one which propogated the passive voice in English as being improper. to sympathise with the language hippy statement, that book is the man, and does nothing but hold you and proper language down. 4 weeks ago

Are you sure you want to

Jodie Martin, PhD student at University of Adelaide Thanks for all the favourites, tweets, comments, shares, and so on! I've got a 'So you know a research student' brewing so if you have any questions you're sick of being asked, or questions you wish someone would ask, or particularly snappy ways of replying to said annoying questions, let me know. 2 months ago

Jodie Martin, PhD student at University of Adelaide :D Glad you like it. I've gotten the weird looks too! 4 months ago

beautifulmind88 Gorgeous. Thanks! Feel so much better someone puts these things on lovely slides. I get asked the same question (or worse, they just looked at you weird) that I feel I may not be in a good-enough field. Phew! Thank you!:)) 4 months ago

Jodie Martin, PhD student at University of Adelaide @LisaMYoung Thanks for sharing! I'm glad you enjoyed it and hope to start making more slideshows again soon! 4 months ago

Lisa M Young Smiling from having viewed this! :) (I also saw a different grammatical error than the 'there's' ... but I love that you don't change it! ...I'm a freelance editor these days so I've trained myself to see it all.) I was just explaining to someone the other day that linguists are like 'language hippies!' Hahaha glad I'm not the only one who thinks so! :) This is marvelous, and it's going on my Facebook page stat! :D 4 months ago

Jodie Martin, PhD student at University of Adelaide @ISayPorter Ha! I'll leave it there, just for that! I like that it's taken almost 54k views before someone's pointed that out. 8 months ago

Stephen Sadler at European Commission, DG Research [Slide 4] 'There's two types of linguists' Surely 'There are two types of linguist' Nice slideshow. A. Grammar-Nazi 8 months ago

Jodie Martin, PhD student at University of Adelaide @iacopogrigolin Glad you like it! And thanks for commenting and letting me know. I hope it helps people ask more interesting questions of linguists. 11 months ago

Iacopo Grigolin This is utterly ravishing – just shared it on my facebook profi-, oops, timeline. It's really hard to be forever prompted with the question, 'What do you study linguistics for? Is it ever going to be of any use in your life?' Now I hope they scroll through these slides and get an overall gist of the often belittled profession of a linguist. 11 months ago