Breaking news: world's fastest linguist wins gold
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Christine Ohuruogu, who Benjamin Zimmer described as "the world's fastest linguist", just won a gold in the Olympics 400m final, hence becoming the first British woman with a linguistics degree to win Olympic gold at this distance. Or any other, we assume. Ohuruogu commented "Take the word 'shit'. Does it mean a pile of faeces, or something is rubbish?" But that was a while ago. This is a great day for the linguistics of taboo vocabulary!
Bird's One View said,
August 19, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
Stunning.
Alex said,
August 19, 2008 @ 2:23 pm
"The first British woman with a linguistics degree to win gold at that distance" That is a lot of qualifiers. Have there been other gold medalists with linguistic degrees?
Doc Rock said,
August 19, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
All politics and, I guess, all sports is local.
Jonathan said,
August 19, 2008 @ 8:16 pm
Wouldn't the word's fastest linguist be the person who actually does linguistics the fastest, not the person who runs the fastest who also happens to be a linguist?
Stephen Jones said,
August 20, 2008 @ 1:42 am
What about the fastest cunnilinguist? I'm all for new Olympic Sports.