# I passed! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420 "2005-01-06T18:07:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/1 "2005-01-06T18:07:02Z")
I passed it! I passed my Linguistics exam! And if I work really hard… I just might scrape an A in this course. WOOHOO! (Yeah, it’s really mundane and pointless. So sue me. ;)) ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/2 "2005-01-06T18:08:37Z")
Huzzah for you! (I have no idea what “linguistics” really means.) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/3 "2005-01-06T18:10:45Z")
Thanks! _smooch_ (It’s the study of language and its different parts–morphology (words), phonology and phonetics (sounds), semantics (meaning), syntax (structure)… things like that. Very arcane, weird, out there and fascinating. ;)) ---
**Author:** ![EmeraldGrue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dc4da7/32.png) [@EmeraldGrue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmeraldGrue)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/4 "2005-01-06T18:16:18Z")
Congratulations **Kythereia**! Hey, if you can’t share mundane and pointless stuff in Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share, what kinda board would that be, right? (Coincidentally, I just miraculously passed a course, got my lowest mark EVAR!1!!11! but it could be so much worse.) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/5 "2005-01-06T18:16:24Z")
You go, girl! Prepares to recieve obligatory _smooches_ Aside to **LifeOnWry** : Linguistics is the study of certain types of pasta. Everyone knows that. D’uh! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/6 "2005-01-06T18:17:30Z")
_hugs for **EmeraldGrue** _ Which course? **Shibb** , _smooches many times over_ 😉 (Pasta? Ouch, I tell you, ouch!) ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/7 "2005-01-06T18:44:18Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > You go, girl! > > Prepares to recieve obligatory _smooches_ > Aside to **LifeOnWry** : Linguistics is the study of certain types of pasta. Everyone knows that. D’uh! Oh come on **Shibb** :rolleyes: Linguistics is the study of how certain types of pasta stick to the wall. Sheesh! We’re supposed to be fighting ignorance, not passing it on. BTW, congrats **Kythereia**! Was it your throwing technique that got the A? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/8 "2005-01-06T18:45:00Z")
Congratulations! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/9 "2005-01-06T23:46:47Z")
**swampy** , indeed it was! I tossed that cannelloni very farfelle… there was a bonus question on tagliatelle, but I didn’t think it was worth the penne. _promptly expires from her lame puns_ 😉 Sunspace, mia amiko, dankon tioma! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/10 "2005-01-07T00:01:43Z")
Congratulations. Enjoy your victory. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WeRSauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/11 "2005-01-07T04:20:27Z")
Congratulations! I took some linguistics courses in my senior year of college. I might have majored in it if I had the time! Excellent field! WRS ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/12 "2005-01-07T04:22:06Z")
Thank you, lovely **Khadaji** and most wonderful **WerSauron**! _hugs_ ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/13 "2005-01-07T04:24:46Z")
::runs nekkid through thread:: ---
**Author:** ![WeRSauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/14 "2005-01-07T07:46:45Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > ::runs nekkid through thread:: [Hijack] If you insist on running “nekkid” through threads, should you not at least give us some visual information as to how this would look like? [/Hijack] WRS ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/15 "2005-01-07T07:59:21Z")
> [@WeRSauron](#): > > [Hijack] If you insist on running “nekkid” through threads, should you not at least give us some visual information as to how this would look like? [/Hijack] > > WRS Simply picture a naked man to whom you are attracted:) This has the advantage of 1) not polluting the world with a naked picture of me and 2) brightening your day:) ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/16 "2005-01-07T14:40:29Z")
Congratulations! It’s always a wonderful feeling to nail an exam (although I would think it would be difficult to nail all that pasta to the wall…) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/17 "2005-01-07T15:21:10Z")
The study of language?!?! Semantics and syntax! I thought you took an oral sex class. (sigh) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/18 "2005-01-07T16:11:32Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Sunspace, mia amiko, dankon tioma! :: blush :: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/19 "2005-01-07T17:24:18Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > The study of language?!?! Semantics and syntax! > I thought you took an oral sex class. > > (sigh) **Zebra**! Really! How scandalous! How shocking! 😉 **mrklutz** , it’s the best feeling in the world–just a little bit better than throwing a potful of rigatoni and penne at my professor for marks. 😃 _ogles **iampunha** _ 😉 at **Sunspace** ---
**Author:** ![MrFantsyPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed/283420/20 "2005-01-07T17:47:52Z")
congratulations. You’re probably lucky you had to leave the dopefest early. I might’ve gone off on my anti-education rant and convinced you to drop out.