Saturday, December 25, 2010

Choose Your Own Career in Linguistics

Trey Jones* at Speculative Grammarian invites y'all to play his cute, and yet somewhat depressing, game: Choose Your Own Career in Linguistics.

As a service to our young and impressionable readers who are considering pursuing a career in linguistics, Speculative Grammarian is pleased to provide the following Gedankenexperiment to help you understand the possibilities and consequences of doing so. For our old and bitter readers who are too far along in their careers to have any real hope of changing the eventual outcome, we provide the following as a cruel reminder of what might have been.


Let the adventure begin...

*hehe, he used to work at Cycorp, hehe...

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TV Linguistics - Pronouncify.com and the fictional Princeton Linguistics department

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