I had a good laugh reading the following language log post.People do seem to be more suspicious of linguists than of other foreigners. Even at my language institute there was at least one anonymous person who was worried I was selling nuclear secrets to the US government. My boss told me of this incident, which had happened while I was on a trip to the Northern Areas. My boss found it quite humorous and had promptly replied to the accuser, "What? What secrets does our institute have to hide that you are so worried?"
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003788.html#more
Sorry, I lost the ability to make these links clickable. I'll be working on that...
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