What is a linguist? Why do I call my blog The Linguist on Language? Why did I call my book The Way of the Linguist?
Every so often someone comments on my blog about that fact that I am not a linguist, since I have not studied linguistics.
So let me be clear. I have read a few books and articles about linguistics. I am not interested. I do not find the hair-splitting and categorization of the phenomena of language that takes place in linguistics to be interesting. It certainly does not help me learn languages.
So why do I call the blog The Linguist on Language? Because I use the term "linguist" in the sense of the first definition provided by the Oxford dictionary. I believe we are all potential linguists. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Linguist on Language (Steve Kaufmann)