Depends on what your goal in life is. If you want to learn languages, linguistics is definitely useful. If you're interested in documenting dead languages, it's useful. If you plan on being a writer, it's quite useful until you get to the stage where it's all about problems of classification or grammatical quibbles no one but linguists cares about.
Linguistics is a meme. Do classics. Actually learn languages. Linguists spend their time lost in fantasy worlds of made-up Chomskyian models.
>the only linguist I've ever heard of is Chomsky
moron post
Everyone who studies it is a fricking moron. Study the history of philology and the philosophy of language in your own time instead. All linguists do is split their time evenly between doing statistical analyses of shit nobody cares about, babbling to anyone who will listen about how prescriptivism is racist, and taking Black person dicks up their ass. They also love showing off their homosexual jargon like anyone cares, they are uniquely smug even though nobody is impressed by their unimportant computer monkey job.
You're right that uninspired linguistics grad students (which is most of them, and are mostly women and gays) do the computational stuff and it's pointless, but there is a lot to be learned from e.g. Structuralists
>Classicists don't learn languages
Uh, hello? I am right here.
Everyone who studies it is a fricking moron. Study the history of philology and the philosophy of language in your own time instead. All linguists do is split their time evenly between doing statistical analyses of shit nobody cares about, babbling to anyone who will listen about how prescriptivism is racist, and taking Black person dicks up their ass. They also love showing off their homosexual jargon like anyone cares, they are uniquely smug even though nobody is impressed by their unimportant computer monkey job.
>Study the history of philology and the philosophy of language in your own time instead
Based
Both of these things are completely false. Why lie?
Everyone who studies it is a fricking moron. Study the history of philology and the philosophy of language in your own time instead. All linguists do is split their time evenly between doing statistical analyses of shit nobody cares about, babbling to anyone who will listen about how prescriptivism is racist, and taking Black person dicks up their ass. They also love showing off their homosexual jargon like anyone cares, they are uniquely smug even though nobody is impressed by their unimportant computer monkey job.
We learned Chomsky's models just for fun and for history's sake. Linguistics is best studied if you can have fun. Because it's a fun discipline.
Also, it helps immensely with learning languages.
Everyone who studies it is a fricking moron. Study the history of philology and the philosophy of language in your own time instead. All linguists do is split their time evenly between doing statistical analyses of shit nobody cares about, babbling to anyone who will listen about how prescriptivism is racist, and taking Black person dicks up their ass. They also love showing off their homosexual jargon like anyone cares, they are uniquely smug even though nobody is impressed by their unimportant computer monkey job.
Post the cringey cold take that got you corrected and laughed at. You know, the one that you lie awake at night thinking about, still coming up with """""""""""witty""""""""""""" defenses of.
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>""""" """""" >cold take >general effeminate blathering
Stay on twitter you Black person troony.
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Post your MA thesis title.
are you the "slavs arent real" guy? the one one thinks that people with "MAs in linguistics" are out to get him?
Depends on how seriously you take it. It is absolutely not a meme, but I've seen a stark difference between a talented linguist and an average one - just as in anything, I suppose.
Depends on what your goal in life is. If you want to learn languages, linguistics is definitely useful. If you're interested in documenting dead languages, it's useful. If you plan on being a writer, it's quite useful until you get to the stage where it's all about problems of classification or grammatical quibbles no one but linguists cares about.
Straight moron post
>the only linguist I've ever heard of is Chomsky
moron post
You're right that uninspired linguistics grad students (which is most of them, and are mostly women and gays) do the computational stuff and it's pointless, but there is a lot to be learned from e.g. Structuralists
Seething grad student. Do you call yourself a linguist without even knowing latin? A joke of a field.
Latin is 100% unnecessary to many language groups - and I studied Latin for three years, but nta.
Linguistics is a meme. Do classics. Actually learn languages. Linguists spend their time lost in fantasy worlds of made-up Chomskyian models.
Classicists don't learn languages, and no one cares about Chomsky in academic linguistics.
>Classicists don't learn languages
Uh, hello? I am right here.
>Study the history of philology and the philosophy of language in your own time instead
Based
Both of these things are completely false. Why lie?
>be racist
>be moron
Every time.
whining about racism is very reddit, learn to tolerate dissenting opinions
I'll do what I please. I don't really care what goes on in reddit. I don't need to conform to your standards.
Also, take your own advice.
Linguists have moved away from Chomsky for a long time now, though I guess depends on the school.
We learned Chomsky's models just for fun and for history's sake. Linguistics is best studied if you can have fun. Because it's a fun discipline.
Also, it helps immensely with learning languages.
Everyone who studies it is a fricking moron. Study the history of philology and the philosophy of language in your own time instead. All linguists do is split their time evenly between doing statistical analyses of shit nobody cares about, babbling to anyone who will listen about how prescriptivism is racist, and taking Black person dicks up their ass. They also love showing off their homosexual jargon like anyone cares, they are uniquely smug even though nobody is impressed by their unimportant computer monkey job.
Sounds like you're butthurt that (barely) knowing a language doesn't meant that you know anything about language.
Post your MA thesis title.
Post the cringey cold take that got you corrected and laughed at. You know, the one that you lie awake at night thinking about, still coming up with """""""""""witty""""""""""""" defenses of.
>""""" """"""
>cold take
>general effeminate blathering
Stay on twitter you Black person troony.
are you the "slavs arent real" guy? the one one thinks that people with "MAs in linguistics" are out to get him?
it’s zogged because genuine theories like Sapir-whorf are censored
less makey posties, more takey meddies
That being said, I really enjoyed Arrival.
>tfw i can already hear painted fingernails furiously typing in response to this post
Depends on how seriously you take it. It is absolutely not a meme, but I've seen a stark difference between a talented linguist and an average one - just as in anything, I suppose.
Only historical linguistics is worthwhile