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What is Linguistics Good For, Anyway?; An Advice Column by Jonathan \u201cCrazy Ivan\u201d van der Meer; From Volume CLV, Number 4 of Speculative Grammarian, February 2009. \u2014 The most commonly asked question of a linguist, when one\u2019s secret is revealed, is (all together now!): \u201cHow many languages do you speak?\u201d I\u2019ve decided that a good answer to this question is \u03c0. More than three, less than four\u2014though if you discover that your interlocutor is singularly unsophisticated or otherwise from Kansas, you can call it three to keep things simple. (Read by David J. Peterson.)