Difference between revisions of "Linguist meme"

Revision as of 19:30, 16 February 2012

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

This is starting to get there:

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 * http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150616873783257&set=a.58166823256.53507.500018256&type=1
 * http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150559685602285&set=a.55468612284.69313.680192284&type=1
+* http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=371918789487695&set=a.334122933267281.89842.119197518093158&type=1
 == The plan ==