#linguist

I love hearing Connor speak French. It is impressive how many Quebeçois words he was able to deduce. I'd say he did quite well.

I learned French all through grade school. I also did 4 yrs in University. Learning Parisian French, like Connor did, I found though is quite different than learning Quebeçois or even Acadian which is found in New Brunswick. They are quite their own languages. I remember it was quite a shock when we did an Acadian night at Université de Moncton when I spent a summer there on a bursary.

a LINGUIST is not, by definition, someone that knows a bunch of languages (though that is a common side effect)

a LINGUIST is not someone that silently corrects everyone's grammar. that's a prescriptivist.

a LINGUIST IS someone who practices the scientific study of language. someone who observes how people do language in real life and describes what's actually going on.

So not this:

and not this:

but this:

this is what happens when you try to make a chart of every possible sire/carrier genotype pairing of a species with twelve sexes and five genders

-Linguist