United Nations. 2017. "to celebrate the role of language professionals".

It's the feast day of St.Jerome, who's the patron not only of
translators and interpreters, but also "Bible scholars, archivists,
librarians, military linguists [?], encyclopedists and students." (Crystal)

Jerome's translations made up the standard Latin text of the Bible (the Vulgate).
The UN has a St Jerome Translation Contest (2005-), for "the best
translations into Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish and German".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome

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Ar an triochadú lá de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark:

United Nations. 2017. "to celebrate the role of language professionals".

It's the feast day of St.Jerome, who's the patron not only of translators and
interpreters, but also "Bible scholars, archivists, librarians, military linguists [?], encyclopedists and students." (Crystal)

My understanding is “linguist” is a term in the US military for service members
who work as interpreters or translators. See https://www.google.com/search?q=linguist+site:.mil

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How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
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On 2024-09-30, Ross Clark wrote:

United Nations. 2017. "to celebrate the role of language professionals".

It's the feast day of St.Jerome, who's the patron not only of
translators and interpreters, but also "Bible scholars, archivists, librarians, military linguists [?], encyclopedists and students." (Crystal)

I was going to ask about the patron saint of non-military linguists,
but I found this on Gretchen McCulloch's blog:

Saint Gotteschalk, Patron Saint of Linguists

<https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/23728963441/saint-gotteschalk-patron-saint-of-linguists>

Jerome's translations made up the standard Latin text of the Bible (the Vulgate).
The UN has a St Jerome Translation Contest (2005-), for "the best translations into Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish and German".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome

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Hope it doesn't take too long
Can't you see there'll come a day when it won't matter?
Come a day when you'll be gone ---Boston

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On 2024-09-30, Ross Clark <[email protected]> wrote:

It's the feast day of St.Jerome, who's the patron not only of
translators and interpreters, but also "Bible scholars, archivists, librarians, military linguists [?], encyclopedists and students." (Crystal)

I understand that at least the American military uses the designation "linguists" for its members trained in local languages.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]

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