Linguist

//ˈlɪŋɡwɪst//

"Linguist" in a Sentence (13 examples)

The linguist is fluent in several Chinese dialects.

The linguist is quite familiar with the dialect.

Two of my friends are researchers; one is a linguist, the other a chemist.

Edward Sapir was an American linguist.

He's a skilled linguist.

She's a cunning linguist.

This man is a linguist. It's natural that he know.

Because he's studying in the Language Department right now, Tursun brags about himself being a "linguist".

I want to be a linguist.

There is no arguing with the assertion of the great linguist Claude Hagège: never before in the history of humanity, has a language had a "comparable extension in the world to what English now has."

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President Donald Trump has "turned words into weapons" -- and journalists are providing additional ammunition. That's according to Trump critic George Lakoff, a renowned linguist and professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.

The internet serves as an accelerant to fanilects. Because song lyrics are readily available online, they have a characteristic linguists call "persistence," meaning anyone can refer to them and reuse them.

The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance.

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