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:::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)
:::::::::I'm a bit surprised by that, Andrew. Maybe it's a British/American thing? I have the sense (maybe vainglorious one ;]) that ''linguist'' in American English is reserved for those who either are by profession or by hobby actively engaged in linguistic study. If you can't diagram a sentence - the majority of people can't - in either of the 2+ languages you speak, I'm not sure what claim (in American English) you have to being a linguist.
::::Of course there is the question of the Latin word, too: ''glottologus''. This seems to support my perceived American usage. Certainly not everyone who has thoughts is a psychologus, no more than are scientists scientologists (ok I'm joking here).
::::IJzeren, this is one of my favorite hip hop groups: [[:en:CunninLynguists]]
::::--[[Usor:Ioscius|Ioscius]] <sup>'''[[Disputatio Usoris:Ioscius|∞]]'''</sup> 12:06, 7 Aprilis 2010 (UTC)
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