Since another thread (Reading Old English) was getting severely hijacked, here’s as good a place as any to broach whatever floats your boat about Linguistics.
I’ll start.
Why the heck does everyone have to ask me how many languages I know when they find out my major is Linguistics?
For their edification (and also because my head’s not doing well against that brick wall), from Merriam-Webster:
Be so kind as to notice definition two. {BTW, I can converse in more than one language.}
Whatever you consider to be your favourite language, what one thing tops the list of things that make it your favourite?