Friday afternoon fun:
Did you ever read the popular Choose Your Own Adventure series of game books as a child? In this series, the reader determines the outcome of a story by selecting from a series of options on each page.
Trey Jones of the satirical online journal “Speculative Grammarian” (the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics) has created a similar online game just for linguists – Choose Your Own Career in Linguistics.
The adventure begins…
“You are a freshman at a respectable university and, in order to fulfill some elective requirements, you sign up for Linguistics 101 because it looks easy and it’s scheduled for MWF at 11, which is tolerable. After a semester of linguistics, you find you enjoy learning odd facts about odd languages and it really isn’t too hard, so you sign up for Linguistics 102 … ”
And then? Will it be a double major in Linguistics and English with a serving of fries, or great glory analyzing the language of beings on distant planets. You choose your path …
