Originally Posted by
SkeptiCallie
Did you have a course in linguistics/history of the English language? My doctoral minor was linguistics--though that sounds much too fancy a term for Old English, Middle English, and two semesters of "History of the English Language." (Must have had some other course relating to it but can't recall now.) Spiders, frying pans, skillets. . . . variant terms I yawned through all (and what I could recall, promptly forgot). Don't know how a poetry lover ever ended up in that group.
Very
! I often think that I should have gone into linguistics rather than my chosen field of study; I think I have more natural talent for linguistics and at least as much genuine interest.
I used to find English to be an exceedingly boring and uninteresting language until I started reading up on the history of the language. I daresay that among languages it has one of the most interesting histories. I still prefer other languages to English, but I can no longer say it's not an interesting language in its own right.
Originally Posted by
daph
Though I enjoy United and their Channel 9 I'd prefer to have them serve Coke not Pepsi.
When's the last time you flew UA?
They switched to Coke a while back. It was probably one of the most concrete improvements in service in a while.
