Accidentally overstating

[cosmolinguist]

Trying to pick classes for next year (the deadline is Friday and this is already closer to it than I want to be!) and it's incredibly stressful. Nothing is jumping out at me as looking particularly appealing; I have overwhelming options in regards to lots of things from the entire Faculty of the Humanities and the link I've been given to check those online is broken; I don't feel like I have very good information about what the different classes entail) so to ignore that stress for a minute, here's a little linguistics vignette:

Internet linguist (that's what she calls heself!) Gretchen McCulloch has joined Mastodon where I've been hanging around since hte beginning of the year (it's like Twitter except better in almost every way). She asked if there were any other linguists there. Aaaand, one of my Masto friends tagged me in a reply to her.

Bless you, I told her, but I'm not a linguist, I've only done one year of an undergrad degree. (Though this did give me a chance to tell Gretchen that the podcast she co-hosts, Lingthusiasm, is more directly responsible than anything else for me starting that degree a year ago!)

Ack, my friend said. "You still talk about it enough imo!" This made me laugh so much.

Yes, I am sure I do talk about linguistics enough that I don't blame anyone who actually thinks I am one. (It seems to be my inevitable topic of conversation when I'm drinking, too...)

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

And one of the classes I just tried to enrol on...somehow clashes with the only other class I have so far that entire semseter how can this be.

Sigh. Back to the stress mines.

[sfred]

OMG you are now friends with Gretchen McCollogh. That is so cool.

[cosmolinguist]

Well, I wouldn't go that far. :) I'm following her on Mastodon now, but I was following her on twitter before and it's not quite made us friends.

[sfred]

You interacted with her! (I follow her on Twitter, too.)

[cosmolinguist]

I have interacted with her a couple of times -- previously with comments about stuff she's said on Lingthusiasm. She's always been nice.

[sfred]

Hurray.

[haggis]

I feel “Choose your career wisely, because you will end up talking about it in all sorts of social situations” is advice I should have considered a looooong time ago. Too late now so you are are stuck with me talking about grim stuff in the pub!

[haggis]

PS your passion and interest in your subject is really engaging 😀

[cosmolinguist]

Thank you! As is yours. :)