Linguistics
- The Happy Medium
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Linguistics
Who here has studied linguistics? Perhaps it's just because it's my major but it seems like there's quite a few linguistics peeps on the boardboard.
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No, I think you're right. I have/am.
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I'm a linguistics major
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I'm studying two languages. One of them is German. The other one-- well, it would make it insanely easy to find out who I am if I told you all. I'm planning on studying a third language next year. I can't tell you that one either.
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Is it an Indo-European language?
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Yup. Both of the unspecified languages.
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I have a B.A. in Linguistics. Happy Medium and Talley, what are you doing for your foreign language(s)?
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I'll PM you languages 2 and 3.Tally M. wrote:Is it an Indo-European language?
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Well, it's non-Indo-European =PKatya wrote:I have a B.A. in Linguistics. Happy Medium and Talley, what are you doing for your foreign language(s)?
- The Happy Medium
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I'm doing French. I really wanted to do a Non-Indo-European language but I was already halfway through a French minor by the time I chose linguistics as my major. Plus, 100 level language classes are a lot of work!
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I've wanted to do linguistics since my sophomore year of high school...So, I chose my language based on the recommendation given on myMAP.
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I believe the Board was once sponsored by the Linguistics Department. I always felt that that contributed to the disproportional number of majors.
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But the question is, has the trend continued?
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Perhaps those interested in languages and research gravitate towards the board.
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Well, the reason the Board was sponsored by the Linguistics Dept. was that there were already enough linguistics majors writing for the Board that they had the connections to work out a sponsorship when we lost our original home. But it may also have spawned some new Board interest among linguistics majors. So it's a chicken and egg situation.Portia wrote:I believe the Board was once sponsored by the Linguistics Department. I always felt that that contributed to the disproportional number of majors.
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When I was your age (which is always fun to say), a non-I-E language was required (except that they also counted Slavic languages, for some reason, so I did Russian). But I took a semester of Mandarin, too.The Happy Medium wrote:I'm doing French. I really wanted to do a Non-Indo-European language but I was already halfway through a French minor by the time I chose linguistics as my major. Plus, 100 level language classes are a lot of work!
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That's how it was when my sister-in-law was here. She had taken Japanese in high school but she ended up using ASL for her language requirement. Then she got called on a mission to JapanKatya wrote:When I was your age (which is always fun to say), a non-I-E language was required (except that they also counted Slavic languages, for some reason, so I did Russian). But I took a semester of Mandarin, too.
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Ha!The Happy Medium wrote:That's how it was when my sister-in-law was here. She had taken Japanese in high school but she ended up using ASL for her language requirement. Then she got called on a mission to JapanKatya wrote:When I was your age (which is always fun to say), a non-I-E language was required (except that they also counted Slavic languages, for some reason, so I did Russian). But I took a semester of Mandarin, too.
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All you wonderful language people wouldn't happen to know any Polish, would you? (Or know of a Polish lab or something?) I'm getting some obituaries for family history stuff, but they're in Polish. And I don't read that.
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Have you tried typing them into Google translate? (You could probably at least get the general gist of what they're saying.)thatonemom wrote:All you wonderful language people wouldn't happen to know any Polish, would you? (Or know of a Polish lab or something?) I'm getting some obituaries for family history stuff, but they're in Polish. And I don't read that.