Generic Grammar Course? (was RE: Why students do not study Russia n anymore)

[Kenneth E Udut]

Well, dang, it sounds
like I need to enroll myself
in a linguistics program!

Heck, had I the money
(and not a defaulted student loan
from a faied 1 1/2 yr attempt at
"experimental college" at Hampshire
College), I'd easily be a "professional
student".  There's too much in the world
that I'm curious about, and have to
resort to public libraries, buying books
from amazon.com and internet
listservs (and plain ol' speculation
about the nature of all sorts of things).

Ah well.  I'm 28 yrs old now, and maybe
someday (if I don't accidentally find myself
with a wife and children), I'll have that
student loan paid off, and be able to
go full time to school when I'm 40
(which will be here before I know it).

If ya don't 'get it right' when your
fresh out of high school, you're stuck, I s'pose.

-Kenneth

> Indeed they do. There is a science that deals with all these
> things. It is called linguistics. Over 150 U.S. colleges
> and universities have introductory linguistics courses,
> and some have upper-level courses dealing with linguistic
> typology, which is precisely the study of all the different
> possible categories and structures that different languages
> show.
>
> Yours faithfully,
>
> Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
> Department of Linguistics
> Morrill Hall 321, Cornell University
> Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

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