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Other Topics => Completely Off-Topic => Topic started by: sayyouwould on August 16, 2003, 06:14:17 pm
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This is very very exciting!! I know what I'm going to do with my life!!
Linguistics is the study of language. It’s not simply the learning of another language, although that may be part of your studies. As a Linguistics major, you’ll learn about the nature of language—its role in our life and thinking, its impact on society, and how it serves our needs. You’ll discover how different languages relate to and inform each other, what they have in common, and why. You’ll also be learning about the development of language—how it changes over time, how its speakers come to learn it, and how we ourselves affect its development.
Scientific study is a large part of Linguistics. While you’ll certainly be learning about language as a phenomenon of culture and society, you’ll also study humans’ cognitive abilities, perception, and organs of speech production. You’ll do a great deal of research, and much of your study will include gathering, analyzing, and presenting material. You’ll also use computer systems to analyze data and explore language processing programs.
Linguistics is a multidisciplinary field. Language has ties to nearly all fields of study, including, but not limited to, psychology, philosophy, and anthropology. This is a diverse and exciting field, and if you’re fascinated by language in all its many forms and functions, this major may be the one for you.
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well interesting! Good luck to you!
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a Linguistics?!?!
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It's a linguist. And it's not as easy as you think. Wanna learn 30 languages fluently? Mario Pei did. I expect no less from you. :wink:
(He actually knew more, but I know it was at least 30)
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a Linguistics?!?!
It's a linguist.
See? I'm good at it already! :wink:
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sounds interesting, good luck. i think im gonna stick to minoring in spanish in college hehe
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Way to go.. it's a tough field... but really really exciting... I was a linguist for the Army specializing in slavic languages... have fun and study hard.
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I might consider Linguistics.... it sounds fun, and as of now, I am eaching myself Russian, French and Slovak.
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Thanks y'all for all the support!! it's more support than I get here from my family.
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Congratulations and good luck! Myself, I don't think I want to be a linguisticismizer, but I would like to learn at least one language or two with fair fluency. I'm looking at Hebrew right now, starting with Bibilical, and my fiancée may get me into German after we're married. I know a little Spanish (enough that I could carry on extensive chat room conversations with native Spanish-speakers who knew no English), but it's been a while since I've used any.
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Thanks y'all for all the support!! it's more support than I get here from my family.
I will go and learn linguists with you, I was talking about that with my neighbor the other day.
A question though: For linguists class, do you have to learn like 5-10 languages?
Just a thought, because I want to.
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Congratulations and good luck! Myself, I don't think I want to be a linguisticismizer, but I would like to learn at least one language or two with fair fluency. I'm looking at Hebrew right now, starting with Bibilical, and my fiancée may get me into German after we're married. I know a little Spanish (enough that I could carry on extensive chat room conversations with native Spanish-speakers who knew no English), but it's been a while since I've used any.
hebrew is hard. :( I have a hard time with it at passover....thank the lord there is yiddish there too!!! :) I always get lost.
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If I learn Hebrew, and my fiancée is learning German, we may very well start speaking Yiddish to each other eventually! :lol:
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Yiddish is crazyness. I really dislike it!! I think it sounds yuky.
didn't you learn hebrew in hebrew school?? My dad did and can read and talk it fleuently. He wanted to be a rabi(sp)!! haha I learned a little not like I remember any though...
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I'm not inherently Jewish myself, though I've had many strangers to ask, not even knowing me (I guess I look Jewish or something), I have been around quite a few and have been exposed to many of the customs. I've always heard so many stories about how this or that got started, and it's always been nice to know Jews I could ask to set it straight. The wife of one of my chaplains this past year was a Messianic Jew, and one of the nicest ladies you could ever hope to meet. She sang for us on several occasions and she and the chaplain, who himself claimed to be Baptist Pentecostal, led us in many Jewish observances throughout the year. I was so upset about having to come back home before the big Passover observance they were planning this April! I was raised Baptist myself, which is very close to the Messianic creed. My fiancée is part Jewish (and pretty proud of it), though raised Catholic, and very eager to get in touch with her German and Jewish roots. Myself, I'm interested in Jewish history and tradition as part of the background of my faith, as opposed to Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox history and tradition.
(Is this, perhaps, getting a little off topic?) :?
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Ohh interesting. I just assumed you were jewish because of your profile!!
But since we are into stories........
I was born march 2,1989 to a Irene who was a cath and Kenny who was a Jew. My grandparents didn't want to have anything to do with me unless my parents made me jewish. So rather than losing them forever...since jewish people are so crazy...my mom said ok and they did whatever they had to do. So I went to heb school and I had my bat mitzvah and I don't remember a lot of the in between. But we don't celebrate catholic holidays since my parents have divorced...my mom isn't very religous anymore so she goes to her family but I stay with my father around christmas.
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I love life stories! People always start off talking about themselves and then apologize and ask me if they're boring me, but I'm always up for hearing about other people. My fiancée's mother's family is 100% Irish Catholic, and her parents are divorced also. She's not really "religious" at all right now. All her life, though, anytime she was with her mother's family for any holiday or anything, they would always be shoving ham and stuff down her throat! :roll:
I'm reminded of all the theories I've read on what makes a person Jewish.
Some say that any Jewish part of a person's ancestry makes them Jewish. Based on a very common tradition, it has to be the mother, according to many, who is Jewish to make a child Jewish. In the Bible, however, ancestry was always recorded through the fathers. Others say that simply adopting Jewish customs and/or beliefs makes a person Jewish, with or without a formal conversion. In the Bible, several aliens were allowed into the Jewish community to believe and observe with them provided they make themselves ceremonially clean, and numerous stories are told of people who married outside the people of Israel. Exempli gratia, The entire house of Joseph is half-Egyptian! :idea:
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Hey good luck to you :)
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Everyone has a Jewish background, unless, of course, there are people with 100% Gentile backgrounds. That rarely ever happens, though.
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So true. :idea: