Re: Conlanging in the news

> Grrr...
>
> This is really upsetting to me. I need money much more than
> a Ph.D. candidate does (or will). Obviously our own community
> has attracted no attention. Of course, if you're not even
> willing to do a google search... Bah. Whatever. Work to do.
Are you joking? :) Most PhD students, far from being awash in
cash, live penurious, almost ascetic lives from lack of funding.
I myself am drowning in a vast sea of debt. The fact is,
linguistics like most of the humanities simply wouldn't exist
if universities weren't dishing out tens of thousands of dollars
to each individual student to study.


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