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1. When you tell people you're a linguist, people always ask you how many languages you speak.
2. Or they ask you what "linguistics" is.
3. You catch yourself saying, "linguists don't necessarily speak any foreign languages" although you likely do anyway.
4. You stay up late reading wikipedia articles on different language's morpho-phono-syntacto-semantics because you're practically a wizard.
5. And then cringe / cry because you know what morpho-phono-syntacto-semantics means.
6. You also stay up late building syntax trees for fun.
7. You're a linguistics major at a university which makes it hard to find friends because basically nobody is a linguist.
8. You can write anything in IPA.
9. In fact, you use IPA to write diabolical secret messages.
10. English majors are your worst enemy because they are just dirty, evil prescriptivists.
But most importantly, you think you're awesome because linguistics is actually a really fun field and take pride in yourself that it's not something most people like doing!
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