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Jobs in Linguistics What jobs do you know of?
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Jobs in Linguistics What jobs do you know of? Teaching language
Translation/Interpretation Language as a secondary skill Medicine, business, government, FBI, CIA, call centers
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Linguist List Indeed Monster
Jobs in Linguistics Linguist List Indeed Monster
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What do you call a dictionary maker?
Dictionaries What do you call a dictionary maker?
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What do you call a dictionary maker? Lexicographer
Dictionaries What do you call a dictionary maker? Lexicographer
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Dictionaries What do you call a dictionary maker? Lexicographer
Where do they find words to include? Books, newspapers, blogs, TV shows
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Dictionaries used to be prescriptive They told people what was correct
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Dictionaries Dictionaries used to be prescriptive
They told people what was correct Since correctness is impossible to define, dictionaries are now descriptive They show how people use the language
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Difference between interpreter and translator?
Translation Difference between interpreter and translator?
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Translation Difference between interpreter and translator?
Why can you just use dictionary?
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Translation Difference between interpreter and translator?
Why can you just use dictionary? No inflections No syntactic information No cultural information Can: lata obtentor
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