Linguist meme: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 16:30, 29 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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 * https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2495409434622&set=a.2228075711446.2097173.1534434297&type=1
 * https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=324693207567265&set=a.309008802469039.62149.100000797643221&type=1&ref=nf
+** http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/lingllama/17672501821/1/tumblr_lzgagoOgPS1qhh9hg
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