17 Signs You’re A Linguistics Major
From phonetics to pragmatics, baby. How you know you’ve spent too much time thinking about language.
2. You begin every semester by learning the alphabet over again.
And your friends are totally jealous.
3. You’ve made the mistake of trying to do phonetics homework in the library.
6. You’re totally jealous of your baby cousin’s language learning skills.
8. But you have no patience for grammar nazis, because linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive!
9. And you know English orthography is a total shitshow, so when it comes to spelling…
10. You love finding little biases in the dictionary.
Of course, you also hate it, because that’s terrible. But you keep an eye out for them!
11. You kind of want to do your thesis on internet-speak as a dialect of English.
LOL i mean, I can’t even. I literally can’t.
12. You could literally argue for hours about the word “literally.”
And your non-linguistics friends are like
14. You hate that there still isn’t an easy way to make sentence trees on Microsoft Word.
15. When people ask about your plans after graduation, you tell them CIA…
17. But actually you just want to travel the world and learn more languages.
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