Revels in Geekdom

Someone’s written in the New York Times about her linguophilia. For those of you who fear my coming because you just know I’m going to drop a few strange words, e.g., “non-configurational” and “polysynthetic” and “sexy” (ok, not that last one), watch out: there are more.

Now you may have to nod and smile at more than one person for talking about languages as if it’s something cool and exciting. But please try to get over the initial shock of the jargon. It’s not nearly as bad as EECS jargon, and no one says it will go unexplained forever.

And… off I go to SLUgS (Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students).