Ling Love

I miss linguistics. Ever since I stumbled into an Intro to Linguistics course during my first quarter at OSU, I've found the subject absolutely fascinating. I wanted add linguistics as a second major, but ultimately my desire to graduate in four years outweighed that. One of my professors tried to convince me that I should go for a PhD in linguistics instead of an MLS, and sometimes I think she had the right idea. Linguistics is certainly more interesting to read about than library science (snore!), but unfortunately it didn't seem to be a very practical career choice.

Today I found a great source for what's sure to become my daily linguistics fix. It's a blog called "The Language Log" which features posts written by linguists from around the country. I read several interesting posts, including today's "NATIONAL (OMIGOD) GRAMMAR DAY". Already, the blog has won my favor by both a)being funny and b)hating on prescriptivism. Maybe it will also lead me to some further reading. (Yes, I'm a dork. I read about linguistics for fun. My secret is out!)

And who knows, maybe someday I really will go back to school for that PhD. :D