Re: CHAT: conlangers' lives, or somethin'... (was Re: Brukhim Hanimtza'im!)

On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:45:17 -0500 Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
writes:
> Steg Belsky wrote:
> > I can't believe i forgot to say in my email....one of the classes
> i'm
> > taking is Introduction to Linguistics!  Although my teacher
> doesn't seem
> > to understand the concept of an artlang.
> Hey, that's great!  I'm sure you'll do well.  My experience with
> people
> taking intro classes is that getting by the abstractions of phoneme,
> phone,
> and all the biological ramifications on those ideas are the tough
> part, and
> you've pretty clearly shown you understand that stuff thoroughly.
>
> By the way, what's your major?
>
> =======================================================
> Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
My major is Undecided.  :)
I'm thinking of maybe majoring in Judaic Studies, with possibly also a
minor or 'concentration' in Linguistics.  My teacher was telling us
yesterday how Binghamton used to have such a good Linguistics department,
but everyone left so there're very few courses, and the department got
absorbed by the Anthropology department.  So i'm not even sure if you can
actually major (or even minor) in Linguistics.  Maybe it'll get better by
the time i have to declare a major in my Junior year.
My problem in the class is that i've found that i pretty much understand
already much of what's being taught, because of Conlang, but i don't know
all the terms or a lot of the minutiae of them.

-Stephen (Steg)
 hatirdof na3arut ahhar hhamishim?  veyameikha lehit3ofeif hhamushim!

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