I tend to keep my doomsday feelings to another blog that is hosted on a foreign site, but I will say this: I really hope the world stays around long enough for me to get my Ph.D. Ha!
On the subject of which, All Things Linguistics posted a long resource page for the newbie Linguist, like myself. It has links to readings and videos and courses. It is going to be my go-to guide for self study.
The textbooks are hard to read without guidance. I’ve taken an into class before, so a lot of it is review for me, so I’m not sure how to take notes on it. I had planned to just notate everything, but honestly it’s tedious. I suppose I should get used to since I plan to enter academia. Derp.
Another interesting thing is following a variety of linguists on Twitter. I’m learning so much and also feeling hopelessly lost. I’m find the feeling endearing as I know that one day I will be just as knowledgeable as those I follow. It’s all just jargon. I just need to have the background knowledge.
One of the Linguists I follow posted tonight about a Linguistic citation interest group. I hadn’t known it didn’t have a standard, and I find it very interesting how early in its creative state it is. I’m not a scientist yet, but I wonder why a different established system doesn’t work or can’t be borrowed. I guess I’ll be finding out.
ETA: She wrote all about why it isn’t working. Gosh I should read more carefully.* I’ll post the first part of the thread.
The Linguistics Data Interest Group are taking the Austin Data Citation principles to @resdatall P10 in Montreal later in the month! 1/n
— Lauren Gawne (@superlinguo) September 5, 2017
I sent her a response, and she responded back.
It totally made my night.
*How ironic that I wrote this after titling my post. Meeting mediocre standards more like… 😛
Saffron Coelho 