Linguists vs language lovers

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If someone is a linguist, it doesn’t mean they’re learning languages, or that they know more than one. They know about languages. Similarly, someone who speaks more than one language is not a linguist.

I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina. ~ Polyglot: How I Learn Languages - Kató Lomb

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