Polyglots vs Linguists

PATREON: / austinhoward
Polyglots, linguist? What's the difference? Well, something, but not everything. Why is this an issue and what do we call people who learn languages and should we pay attention to why people are learning those languages. How many languages do you have to speak to be a polyglot? Can you be a monoglot linguist (Chomsky and Pinker, if I'm not mistaken)? What about sign languages and spoken languages?
Created by: Austin Howard
MA student, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Intro and still photo by Vera van de Donk.
#lingusitics #polyglots #languagelearning #languagesciences #multilingualism #scienceandsociety #vlog
Famous/noteworthy linguists include:
Daniel Everett
Ferdinand de Saussure
Steven Pinker
Noam Chomsky
Pieter Seuren
Roman Jakobson
Pattie Epps
Marc van Oostendorp
Roberta D'Alessandro
Edward Sapir
Pieter Muysken
Alexandra Aikhenvald
Kate Burridge
Eve V. Clark
Famous polyglots do (and have) include(d):
Cleopatra
Alexander Arguelles
William James Sidis
Emil Krebs
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Kató Lomb
Frans Timmermans
Queen Elizabeth I
Kenneth Hale
Lindie Botes
Olly Richards
Audrey Hepburn
Steve Kaufmann
Karen Mok
Queen Silvia of Sweden
Anna Maria van Schurman
Conor Clyne
Susanna Zaraysky
Moses McCormick
Luca Lampariello
Lindsay Williams
Ziad Fazah (controversially)
Richard Simcott
Sir Richard Burton (the Victorian explorer who translated the Kama Sutra into English, not the actor, though the actor was fluent in Welsh and was interested in many languages)
J.R.R. Tolkien
Keywords:
Polyglots
Linguists
Language learning
Language acquisition
Multilingualism
Language study
Linguistic theory
Language teaching
Language research
Language proficiency
#asmr

[@santiglot]

I'll give you an alternative criteria for distinguishing them. Linguists are science based and have real jobs, polyglots on the other hand have nothing but opinions and they sell their privacy and charisma on the internet.

[@Maykitwork]

I would say that a polyglot can be a linguist but a linguist is not necessarily a polyglot. Of course polyglots are not necessarily linguists either. But I’m not sure if a linguist who scientifically studies multiple languages would be counted as polyglot. What do you think?

[@kk200792]

You clever cookie!!

[@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary]

Cheers! Thanks a lot! Haha. I hope some of my other videos are equally intelligent. You'll be the judge.

[@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary]

Hey, how nice of you to join me 😀 Since you're here, why not stick around, give a like, subscribe and sit back and watch a couple more videos. Let me know what types of videos you'd like to see.

[@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary]

Oh, and, of course - let me know if you're a polyglot, a linguist or both!

[@Maykitwork]

You must start writing a book. That would be awesome.

[@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary]

Hahaha. You do me too much honour. Maybe I'll start with a thesis and dissertation first.

[@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary]

Btw, do you consider yourself a linguist, a polyglot or both, Sina?

[@Maykitwork]

@@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary Well I guess I’d be more of a linguist because I studied and will continue studying them. I speak 2 and a half languages so I don’t think I’ll be a polyglot. But you tell me.

[@InsistentlyInterdisciplinary]

@@Maykitwork Well, in that case, I'd say you're indeed more a linguist than a polyglot, but you can easily become both haha. Of course, what a language is, and what 'speaking a language' means are really very debatable topics, as you know.

[@socialsciencesigns4044]

I think a lot of books have covered this - but yeah, maybe a blog post?