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| Lugubert Heptaglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6872 days ago 186 posts - 235 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, Danish, Norwegian, EnglishC2, German, Dutch, French Studies: Mandarin, Hindi | Message 17 of 21 30 April 2008 at 10:43am | IP Logged | |||||
In my book, a polyglot is one who can orally interact with speakers of several languages. A linguist is a person who studies language mechanics at an academic level; not necessarily fluent in many languages. A person who can interpret between even three languages in any combination is a quite remarkable interpreter. One who translates specialized technical stuff from some 7 languages to their mother tongue and has the necessary business skills should be a very well off translator. Unfortunately, I rather fail the economy criterion. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6191 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 18 of 21 30 April 2008 at 2:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
Do you know why the people on this forum know what the word means? Because we're all actively studying how to become such a thing and the word is used all over the place to describe the goal. I have rarely met a person who knows what "polyglot" means. "Linguist" is the word most people use because it's much more common. Another little hint that "polyglot" is seldom used is that there are languages which do not have the word. In Japanese and Korean if you want to describe a polyglot you have to say "a person who speaks several languages." But I see your point about the resume and all that. I still like the commercial though. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5039 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 19 of 21 13 March 2012 at 6:42am | IP Logged | |||||
True story. Back about 15 years ago when I was participating in Telnet BBSs, I put the word polyglot in my profile for the meaning that we here know it to be. Unfortunately I was hit on by a man who said that he wasn't turned off by someone who was in to "that kind of lifestyle." Me: "What kind of lifestyle? Knowing many languages?" Him: "..." He eventually went away, realizing I was not poly-amorous or any such thing. Now that I am older and have added 2 languages to my repertoire in the space of 15 months, I wonder if being a polyglot is a lifestyle choice after all. My book budget and bookshelf seem to tell me it is. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5135 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 20 of 21 13 March 2012 at 8:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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Since the thread's been brought back from the dead...
I find it interesting that people are (or were) insulted by the translator character, when, in fact, it's part of a larger character that Catherine Tate plays, named Helen Marsh - the "I can do that!" woman. The character constantly overestimates her ability to do things. That, to me, is where the humor is. Search around for that particular character on Youtube. It's a pretty funny character, like most of Catherine's other characters. I'm a big fan of hers. R. == Edited by hrhenry on 13 March 2012 at 8:14am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6602 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 21 of 21 13 March 2012 at 11:04am | IP Logged | |||||
And here in Russia polyglot is quite a well-known word, nobody confuses it with linguist. Though I suppose many find it confusing how you can know a lot about a language but not be learning it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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