[uaas]

You are ignoring the part about being a linguist, though. Spending 10 years writing a book is also not quite rare.

[Groxx]

tbh I don't think "researches language structure" has much at all of a correlation with "uses language in a pheasant manner".

it happens to with Tolkein. but it's kinda like claiming a compiler optimization specialist is a good video game developer simply because games use compilers.

[johngossman]

I've been comparing Iliad translations. Some of best classicists, who best understand Greek and the original text, are lousy poets.

[Groxx]

Far too late to edit now, but I got a laugh out of the autocorrect "pheasant" at least

[loloquwowndueo]

Sylvain Neuvel is also a linguist. But I’m sure this will also be disqualified because he’s in a different genre.