linguistic questions

[Robert Lawless]

Yes, Richard. Thanks for pointing this out. I was explaining the difference
between a polyglot and a linguist in class a few days ago, and I said that
most of the outstanding American linguists, at least of a few decades ago,
were monolingual. Some smartass student asked, "Who were they?" Being only
a superficial anthropological linguist, I couldn't answer the question with
any authority. Was I, in fact, correct, and, indeed, who are they? Robert.

At 10:26 AM 4/17/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>And in an amusing irony, linguists often don't develop conversational
>command of a particular language even when they *have* developed a
>sophisticated linguistic understanding of said language.
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