Re: Eeep! Out of the Conlang Closet

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Steg Belsky wrote:

> Today was the first day of my Phonetics & Phonology class at college, and
> at the end of class the professor handed out an information sheet, asking
> for all the usual stuff, like name, phone number, e-mail address,
> previous linguistics classes, what languages spoken, etc.
> The last question was "why are you taking this class?", so i wrote
> something like:
Heh--almost the *same* thing the info sheet for the first day of *my*
Phonetics & Phonology class at college today, except she handed it out
near the beginning of class and it asked for major.  (I was the only math
major, but there were a few from comp sci interested in NLP.)

> Interested in linguistics - I'm also a "conlanger"
> ~
> (also in the sense of, i'm interested not just that, but i'm a conlanger,
> too; i hope she understood it properly)
>
> So now i'm worrying whether that was the right choice or not.
> I guess i'll find out on thursday :-O
<laugh>  You were brave.  I just wrote a brief list of linguistics texts
I'd read (as an excuse for not taking Linguistics 101, I guess) and that
I was interested in linguistics.  It's sort of like being a sf/f writer:
you're never sure whether it's a socially acceptable reason for wanting
to take a class...!

YHL