tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post8089255393668839064..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: In which the Linguistics Major InstructsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-26825052214365272952013-04-30T16:52:13.329-04:002013-04-30T16:52:13.329-04:00I may be recalling this incorrectly (and am I goin...I may be recalling this incorrectly (and am I going to google it right now and avoid potential embarrassment? No), but isn't "decimate" to REDUCE TO one-tenth? As in, she ate 90% of the jello salad? That would make more sense given where the word ended up.The Magical Realisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069059368113533234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-80670348744377569642013-04-29T21:31:05.195-04:002013-04-29T21:31:05.195-04:00Deception: (noun)
A group of ten students storm...Deception: (noun)<br /> A group of ten students storming the dean's office, to claim you ripped your face off in class.Emergency Mathematical Hologramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15873569623797587860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-23436551872932186462013-04-29T20:25:37.262-04:002013-04-29T20:25:37.262-04:00P.S. Answers was one?P.S. Answers was one?Southern Bubba, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12050992903794385204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-86967306265924657882013-04-29T20:24:20.930-04:002013-04-29T20:24:20.930-04:00@BB: Your love is better than any love I know. It...@BB: Your love is better than any love I know. It's like thunder and lightning. The way you love me is frightening. If only I weren't so linguistically challenged by drunkenness....Southern Bubba, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12050992903794385204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-11727751032272050792013-04-29T17:17:39.739-04:002013-04-29T17:17:39.739-04:00Tangent schmangent. Listening to those songs on MP...Tangent schmangent. Listening to those songs on MP3s (without watching the videos) really drives home that Cal truly rocks.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-2484125353596238662013-04-29T17:13:53.777-04:002013-04-29T17:13:53.777-04:00@Frod: True, but jokes themselves can kill.@Frod: True, but jokes themselves can kill.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-64546972309371940822013-04-29T17:12:52.036-04:002013-04-29T17:12:52.036-04:00You're so amazingly cool and awesome for knowi...You're so amazingly cool and awesome for knowing that! <br /><br />While checking out "sycophant", I found a delightfully time-wasting site with free little word games including a spelling bee. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lookup.htm Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-56491940353217121642013-04-29T00:40:59.588-04:002013-04-29T00:40:59.588-04:00@Proffie: The humane way to do that would be to us...@Proffie: The humane way to do that would be to use a killing jar. But jokes don't have wings, you know?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-46529985398655040042013-04-29T00:39:05.770-04:002013-04-29T00:39:05.770-04:00My Dad was ABD in the same group at the University...My Dad was ABD in the same group at the University of Heidelberg that the Brothers Grimm had been in. No kidding! In those days, what they were study was called philology, but today chances are good it would be called linguistics. <br /><br />He taught high school German and Spanish for 38 years, in an upper-middle class neighborhood. He loved to grouse about how much English grammar he had to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-37176095570465158432013-04-28T22:49:54.845-04:002013-04-28T22:49:54.845-04:00I knew there was some weird stuff in hotdogs but I...I knew there was some weird stuff in hotdogs but I didn't realize that answers was one of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-67846476118310026512013-04-28T18:17:49.562-04:002013-04-28T18:17:49.562-04:00Linguistics lost me when I was in a graduate Psych...Linguistics lost me when I was in a graduate Psycholinguistics seminar: all anatomy and chemistry and brain injuries and such... but I get what you're saying about the jokes (it's sometimes how I feel about teaching lit.).The Contemplative Cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088570661592922436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-86167882482768480912013-04-28T17:56:13.446-04:002013-04-28T17:56:13.446-04:00I'm listening to MP3's on "shuffle&qu...I'm listening to MP3's on "shuffle" today and Cal's "Brady Bunch Theme" starts up. I say to myself, "Cool, I forgot I added that to the playlist." And then a few seconds later I realize it's actually Bob Seger's "Like a Rock." The first ten seconds sound the same to me. I guess great minds think alike. Or has Cal been contracting Southern Bubba, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12050992903794385204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-87712764001659404072013-04-28T17:38:17.505-04:002013-04-28T17:38:17.505-04:00ESL (so, yes, teaching, but not necessarily on the...ESL (so, yes, teaching, but not necessarily on the college level) seems to be one of the major career paths for the (relatively small, but thriving -- they recently added a Ph.D.) linguistics program at my school. Speech therapy seems to be another area of interest. Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-31110596411128539152013-04-28T17:32:50.811-04:002013-04-28T17:32:50.811-04:00My favorite class in school was linguistics. I too...My favorite class in school was linguistics. I took it one summer as it somehow fulfilled my history requirement. I ended up in medicine, but whenever talks of phd's come up, I always wonder if I could somehow get one in linguistics. Professor Brown-Cowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01844910674434653089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-45662859861469138782013-04-28T16:44:47.626-04:002013-04-28T16:44:47.626-04:00The comic strip mocks linguists, but the question ...The comic strip mocks linguists, but the question is sincere. Thanks for answering it seriously. The only linguistics-related job outside of academia that I knew about involved that guy who devised Klingon for the Star Trek series.<br /><br />Linguistics was one of my many early majors. Dialects, creoles, and early childhood language acquisition fascinate me still, and I enjoyed the puzzles of Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-54586933444630309682013-04-28T15:58:13.405-04:002013-04-28T15:58:13.405-04:00I don't know if the question: "What can o...I don't know if the question: "What can one do apart from teach," was posed seriously, or to mock those who study Linguistics, but I'll take it as a serious one instead of getting defensive.<br /><br />Most of my friends from grad school who went this route ended up teaching ESL. Others are cataloguing dying languages for different historical foundations and still others work The Contemplative Cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088570661592922436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-50439871754153138812013-04-28T07:55:54.995-04:002013-04-28T07:55:54.995-04:00a reader of the page writes:
As a member of the t...<i>a reader of the page writes:</i><br /><br />As a member of the tribe, I could shed some light on the question of what to do with a linguistics degree: I spent the first years in academia before bailing (I'm now a magazine editor), but many of my friends from grad school now work for Google, Apple, and Bell Labs, among other real-world institutions, and are now making actual money. (Oh, College Miseryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01371354682300032653noreply@blogger.com