# Where are the linguists at? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 29, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-linguists-at/266616 "2004-09-29T04:10:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-linguists-at/266616/41 "2004-09-30T18:04:16Z")
I dimly remember stuff about X-bar syntax and Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar … it was a while back, now. Some of it stuck. The phonetics, now, I remember a lot more of. Particularly the experimental phonetics unit I took in my third year. In fact, the sight of the interior of the nasal cavity during speech production may well haunt me to my grave … ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-linguists-at/266616/42 "2004-09-30T20:20:09Z")
I’m late to the thread, I know, but… I’m a linguist in training! First year of English and Linguistics specialist major–does that count? (And man, linguists are the weirdest, strangest, quirkiest people in the world. I _knew_ there was a reason I wanted to take that subject… :D) ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-linguists-at/266616/43 "2004-09-30T21:56:25Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > I’m a linguist in training! First year of English and Linguistics specialist major–does that count? But of course. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-linguists-at/266616/44 "2004-10-01T00:21:16Z")
I did a BA/MA in Cognitive Psych. at Boulder, with Linguistics as the secondary part of the undergraduate portion. It was tempting to try for a minor or double major, but I couldn’t fit the courses into my schedule. I really enjoyed the linguistic classes I took and try to keep up with linguistics, I need to start using my parents’ library access to read journal articles once more. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-linguists-at/266616/45 "2004-10-01T00:46:59Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] You’re my hero. [QUOTE] Thanks! 🆒 I’m not even a linguist. I met a linguistics student at the party and was trying to impress her. (If I’m not a linguist, why do I keep hanging out in this thread? I guess I must have a thing for them.) PS–can I quote you on that? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-linguists-at/266616/46 "2004-10-01T01:56:26Z")
> [@andygirl](#): > > But of course. 🙂 Yay! And to qualify myself, the phonetic alphabet is Weird–writing a sentence in it looks like some demented form of l33t. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-linguists-at/266616/47 "2004-10-01T02:17:20Z")
Another linguist, checking in. I’ve posted in a few of the linguistic threads before, though not in a while. Aside from phrases like “X-Bar Theory”, “Governmental Binding”, and “anaphors”, I don’t remember too much of Syntax. Chomsky came up, but we didn’t read anything by him. I always preferred Phonology and Morphology, personally. I took my linguistics degree and went into … investments … but my sincere congrtaulations on the grad school! **Alan Smithee** has stolen most of my lines, but I’ll point out to **Cicada2003** that fricatives _are_ plosive. A sound that’s plosive means you’re breathing out to produce it – but everybody who belongs in this thread knew that, right? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-linguists-at/266616.md?page=2)