What I plan to do with my degree
I just finished my BA in Linguistics. So I get a lot of the obvious question: what am I going to do with my degree? In the spirit of my sociolinguistics training, I have found the following ways to apply my degree to daily life. This is just the beginning, of course.
- Express holiday and birthday greetings in tree diagrams.
- Demonstrate my knowledge of the northern midland dialect at parties.
- Write all correspondence using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
- Watch daytime television with the close captioning.
- Peer presure people into inverting their syntax.