Re: Professional linguist Re: Low notes



Peter T. Daniels wrote: 
Mrs Terfel wrote:
  
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
    
Mrs Terfel wrote:
      
But I'm a professional linguist
            
Really? What name do you publish under?

      
and have always found languages very
easy,
        
Or are you saying you're a translator?

      
so I don't know what it would be like for others who don't have a
natural aptitude for it.

Hungarian is the only European language that totally defeats me - it's
*frighteningly* difficult.
        
Have you tried Finnish? or Basque? Armenian? Georgian? Azerbaijani?
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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@xxxxxxx
      
I work in the travel industry where I'm paid to be an interpretor as
well as a translator (among other things).

Just because I don't publish and I work in the private sector rather
than academia doesn't mean that I'm not qualified or not a
professional.

And quite frankly I don't see the need to be bitchy when we're all
having a perfectly civilised and intelligent conversation about a
shared interest of foreign languages.
    

Bitchy? It transpires that you used the word "linguist" in a way that
linguists don't (though the US military does), to mean 'polyglot' or
'translator'; you claimed that you are not defeated by any European
language other than Hungarian, so I inquired about some notoriously
troublesome European languages. If you don't find that selection
"frighteningly difficult," then my admiration would know few bounds.
Peter Daniels who has the ability to reduce every discussion on rmc to one of linguistics. He usually throws in a good dose of semantics, too. Even though I love to reduce arguments to semantics, there comes a point where you look at rmc and think "And this is supposed to be about music???"

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