A Russian foreign minister's statement described the accomplished linguist as an outstanding representative.

俄罗斯外交表的一份声明称这位成就卓著的语言学家是杰出的代表。

I'm not a natural linguist in any way.

无论如何，我都不是天生的语言学家。

Richard Epstein is a linguist and professor at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.

理查德·爱泼斯坦是一位语言学家，也是罗格斯大学的一名教授。罗格斯大学位于新泽西州的肯顿。

But then you're not a linguist, are you, Tucker?

你不是语言学家吧，塔？

In a way, we are all forensic linguists.

从某种意义上说，我们都是法语言学家。

University of Munich linguist Jonathan Harrington.

慕尼黑大学的语言学家乔纳森·哈林顿说到。

If you speak six languages you're a very good linguist — not just fairly good.

如果你会说六种语言，那你就是精通多国语言，非常优秀——不仅仅是还不错的程度。

This is largely because linguists, unlike laypeople, focus on grammar, not vocabulary.

这在很大程度上是因为语言学家与外行人不同，他们关注的是语法，而不是词汇。

University of Texas, Austin linguist Justin Power.

萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的语言学家贾斯汀·鲍尔说到。

In other words, they're designed to look like people we wouldn't expect to be perfect linguists.

换句话说，人们把 Twitter 机器人设计成我们不会期待的完美语言学家的样子。

Linguists tend to avoid the term dialect altogether.

语言学家倾向于避免使用方言一词。

I want to find what linguists place a great importance on.

我想找到语言学家们非常重视什么。

Linguists say guys now uptalk, too.

语言学家们表示男生现在也掌握了这种技能。

Linguists love to argue about it.

语言学家喜欢争论这个问题。

She retains a linguist's affection for their methodology.

作为语言学家，她喜欢这些作者编写书籍的方法。

The British are generally considered to be lazy linguists. We just don't bother to learn another language.

英国人通常被认为在学习外语方面比较懒惰。我们只是不想去学另一种语言。

For years, linguists, grammar nerds, and pedants have battled over the Oxford comma.

多年来，语言学家、语法怪才和学究们一直在为牛津逗号争论不休。

Linguists give vowels names to make it easier to talk about them.

语言学家为很多元音字母命了名，以此来方便讨论。

As a linguist, I'm interested in how language functions generally.

作为一位语言学家，我对语言的整体作用原理很感兴趣。

The Grimms were linguists, not novelists; their aim was preservation, not entertainment.

格林兄弟是语言学家，不是小说家，他们的目的是保存故事，而不是娱乐。