Difference between revisions of "Linguist meme"

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There is a recent internet meme, e.g.:

There needs to be a "linguist" version of this. My current idea is the following:

What my friends think I do: [depict someone correcting what someone else is saying]
What my mom thinks I do: [depict someone backpacking through a jungle?]
What the media thinks I do: [depict a military interpreter?]
What society thinks I do: [depict someone speaking a bunch of languages; maybe via a speech bubble with apertium box contents? :-P ]
What I think I do: [depict world-saving science with some laboratory scene]
What I really do: [depict paper-writing / actual linguistics research with a bunch of books and articles and stuff, or maybe a spreadsheet full of data]

The best would be if these were all somehow pictures of linguists, especially the same linguist :-P

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 ** http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2119/2292412118_fe142799d4.jpg
 ** http://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/image/0003/87960/Teaching-Laboratory-270x405.jpeg
+* Paper-writing scene (#6):
+** http://themelononline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/IMG_4113.jpg