The machine was probably a vocal translator and the mutterer a linguist adding to its vocabulary.
There was a short silence until thelinguist nearest the set said, "I guess we've squeezed that one dry.
Crazy about Stravinsky and Mozart," remarked the earphoned linguist to the Times, resettling his earphones.
This one said he was the most gifted linguist in Genoa, as far as English was concerned, and that only two persons in the city beside himself could talk the language at all.
Wouldn't you have supposed that the adventurous linguistwho framed the card would have known enough to submit it to that clergyman before he sent it to the printer?
A broader basis was taken up by a linguist who tried to trace the primitive institutions and customs of the early Aryans before their separation into divers branches.
In this case we have to do not with a jurist but with a linguistand a student of cultural history.
He was an expert linguist in Turkish and Arabic, and rendered great services to literature by his dictionaries and other works on those languages.
He was a good linguist and poet, and translated several of the classics.
Mrs. MAURY died in Virginia; an artist, linguist and authoress, known in the United States by her Statesmen of America.
He had been recommended to her as the best linguistin the service at Radovitch, and he had a reputation to sustain.
Miss Calhoun, tourist extraordinary, again consulted the linguist in the saddle.
If Ben becomes an expert linguist he can translate the foreign words and phrases for us.
Ben can go ahead and become a linguistfor our benefit.
The modern linguist can never fence himself behind that stately unquestionableness which shields the classical scholar.
The modern linguist is always on firm ground, and in broad daylight.
Franz Woepke had the gift of the linguist and an interest in mathematics, the first serving as auxiliary to the second.
Withey, of Angola District, and his daughter Stella, a rare linguist in Portuguese and Kimbundu, and of great missionary promise, were holding the fort at Dondo when I recently visited that region.
He is a holy young man, a good linguist in Portuguese and Kimbundu, and is doing a good work.
Miss Mary Kildare, a superior teacher, linguist and missionary, is our sole occupant of the station at Matumba.
In its popular form, Judeo-German is certainly not inferior to many of the literary languages which have been fortunate enough to attract the attention of the linguist and student of comparative literature.
Had these conditions prevailed but a short time longer, Judeo-German literature would have been a thing of the past and of interest only to the linguist and the historian.
He was an excellentlinguist and a critical student of the Bible.
He was a linguist of remarkable powers, being able, at thirteen years of age, to boast that he knew as many languages as he had lived years.
Maestro Benedit, who lived at Arles, and was famous as a linguist and astronomer.
He flourished in Spain in the first half of the thirteenth century, and was famous in his day not only as a linguist and philosopher, but even more so as a master of sparkling rhymed prose and verse.
He was furnished with two camels, a cook, a horsekeeper, and three servants belonging to the governor, all of whose wages he agreed to pay at certain fixed rates, and was also accompanied by a linguist named Alberto.
At four in the afternoon we were sent for, but our linguist had got to a Jew house and was drunk with arrack, so we sent an apology, under pretence that Mr Salbank was indisposed, and promised attendance next day.
Being the only linguist present, I was installed as interpreter.
That morning Moriyama, the ancient Dutch linguist who used to interpret between the foreign ministers and the Rojiu, came to communicate the news of Keiki's withdrawal from Kioto.
Alcock's native linguist of the British Legation was stabbed from behind as he was standing at the gateway of the British Legation in Yedo, and within a month more two Dutch merchant captains were slaughtered in the high street at Yokohama.
It gave me a vivid picture of what was going on in the Hague when this linguist of ours got really started to work.
The Linguist ignored the adieu completely; but the Satellite manfully backed up the father, and shook hands all round.
The governor and my mother of course believe that I am as great a linguist as Mezzofanti, if that be the fellow's name, and I shall try and keep up the delusion to the last.
Take my word for it, your linguist is as poor a creature as a dancing-master, and just as great a formalist.
This speech was overheard by some learned linguist in court, and on the same evening I received an intimation to quit the Imperial dominions within twenty-four hours.
He was a linguist and a scholar, and was led by the circumstances of his origin (his father being a German and his mother a Spaniard) to contract a partiality for the literature of those two countries.
My reputation as a linguist could only be maintained by a real Dutch letter.
The first linguist of his day, for he spoke twenty-eight languages and dialects, he found himself relegated to a third-rate port, where his attainments were absolutely valueless to anybody.
FN#52] Such remarks from the man who became the first linguist of his day are well worth remembering.
Nor could there have been a more suitable preparation for the great linguist and anthropologist.
He was the greatest linguist and traveller that England ever produced.
As a linguist he ranked with Mezzofanti and von Gabelentz among the greatest of the world.
Borrow was indisputably a linguist of wide knowledge, though he was not a scholar in the strict sense.
I would wish her no further a linguist than to enable her to read books in their originals, that are often corrupted, and always injured by translations.
A linguist and a learned man may very well be two persons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "linguist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: grammarian; lexicographer; linguist; philologist; polyglot
