Linguistics

[The Happy Medium]

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.

[mic0]

No, I think you're right. I have/am.

[Tally M.]

I'm a linguistics major

[Squirrel]

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.

[Tally M.]

Is it an Indo-European language?

[Squirrel]

Yup. Both of the unspecified languages.

[Katya]

I have a B.A. in Linguistics. Happy Medium and Talley, what are you doing for your foreign language(s)?

[Squirrel]

Is it an Indo-European language?

I'll PM you languages 2 and 3.

[Tally M.]

I have a B.A. in Linguistics. Happy Medium and Talley, what are you doing for your foreign language(s)?

Well, it's non-Indo-European =P

[The Happy Medium]

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!

[Tally M.]

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.

[Portia]

I believe the Board was once sponsored by the Linguistics Department. I always felt that that contributed to the disproportional number of majors.

[Tally M.]

But the question is, has the trend continued?

[Portia]

Perhaps those interested in languages and research gravitate towards the board.

[Katya]

I believe the Board was once sponsored by the Linguistics Department. I always felt that that contributed to the disproportional number of majors.

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.

[Katya]

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!

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]

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.

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 Japan

[Katya]

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.

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 Japan

Ha!

[thatonemom]

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.

[Katya]

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.

Have you tried typing them into Google translate? (You could probably at least get the general gist of what they're saying.)