Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 07, 2006 05:11 AM
Many people in linguistics are in fact quite technically proficient. For instance, Ohio State University has a very large Computational Linguistics program. Linguistics, even when offered as sort of a sub-degree under an English major, involves a much greater amount of technological ability than a typical English major is required to have.
Now, I'm not convinced that this guy is really a linguist, vs. just a guy who has taken a couple of English grammar classes, and I do agree that we have too much arguing over the irrelevant details, but I would not find anything amiss in a linguist working in a tech dept.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 07, 2006 05:11 AMNow, I'm not convinced that this guy is really a linguist, vs. just a guy who has taken a couple of English grammar classes, and I do agree that we have too much arguing over the irrelevant details, but I would not find anything amiss in a linguist working in a tech dept.
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