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:::I'm an honorary fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. Now, although many of its members work as linguists professionally, that's not the qualification for membership. To be a member, you have to pass examinations that prove you to be skilled at understanding and translating languages. So its members can be assumed to be linguists in the usual sense (and to have passed a proficiency examination, unless, like me, they were invited to join), but not in any professional sense.
:::I agree, therefore, that in usual English usage "about 80% of the entire population of the Netherlands [are] linguists". If only that were true of another country that lies a little way to the west of the Netherlands! <font face="Gill Sans">[[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew]]<font color="green">[[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby| Dalby]]</font></font> 11:41, 7 Aprilis 2010 (UTC)
::::Hahaha, thank you Andrew, I stand corrected! This reminds me of a certain James Bond sequence, in which Mrs. Moneypenny called him "a cunning linguist". :) This proves that English usage is different from what I thought. However, it also raises the question whether it makes sense at all to call ''anybody'' a "linguist" in a wikipedia article. You'll agree that it would be weird to call [[:en:Famke Janssen|Famke Janssen]] "a Dutch actress and linguist", or [[:en:Jan Peter Balkenende|Jan Peter Balkenende]] "a Dutch politician and linguist", now wouldn't you? [[Usor:IJzeren Jan|IJzeren Jan]] 12:00, 7 Aprilis 2010 (UTC)
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