Re: A bit of advice re University and such is requested

Marcus Smith wrote:
>
> Robert Hailman wrote:
>
> I don't want to get a degree in
> >Linguistics if I wouldn't enjoy any of the careers I can get with it,
> >although in a land without consequences I'd take Linguistics in a
> >second.
>
> I have found Linguistics to be helpful in my computer work.  I have applied
> basic principles of phonology to web page maintainance, and used syntactic
> theory in my programs.  What I have found to be the most useful part of a Ling
> education (other than the knowledge of language), is a technique to analyze
> and
> solve a problem.  That will be very useful no matter what field you eventually
> go into.
>
Oooh, useful. That's what I like to hear.

Thanks for the advice and all.

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Robert