Can't Spell Language Correctly?

"I've worked in like, you know, linguistics and language technology for more than 10 years. And I still can't spell the word language correctly," he says. "That's how you know you're actually a linguist, is if you can't spell language." He uses Google Translate to help him with his German text messages. 'The experience is really rather dreadful if you don't have that autocorrected spell correction'