Re: Fluency Wish-List

In a message dated 4/13/2000 4:33:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bpj@NETG.SE
writes:

<< >The point of this mail, though, is that my parents somehow oppose
 >this. I'm almost 23 and live by myself, but still. They want me to
 >take something useful instead. And they won't settle with the fact
 >that I'm going back to economics after next term. Oh well. ;)

 I'm thirty-three a father of one and a stepfather of four, and my mother
 still warps on the usefulness mantra.  Today's useful is tomorrow's passé,
 IME.  Live *your* life, develop *your* talents: since you are on this list
 you probably would make a very good and happy linguist or philologist and a
 very bad, unhappy economist, and that's most important in the end! >>
You beat me to it!  Hear! Hear!