Not true. And I would probably go as far as to say impossible. In my opinion, there are way too many languages for one person to know them all. Languages are like Pok\u00e9mon, and I don’t know anyone who has caught them all. However, in opposing terms, I also feel that Linguists do not have to speak any other languages at all. To be a linguist would mean to study the background and history of languages and how they are used more so than just knowing how to speak one\/any. But, in another definition, I suppose being a linguist could be one who speaks many languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not true. And I would probably go as far as to say impossible. In my opinion, there are way too many languages for one person to know them all. Languages are like Pok\u00e9mon, and I don’t know anyone who has caught them all. However, in opposing terms, I also feel that Linguists do not have to speak any other languages<\/p>\n

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