seriously, what i really want out of life is to study obscure tongues. is that so much to ask?

[schmerica]

This may in fact be the dorkiest poll ever to appear in my journal -- and that's counting all the times I made you guys tell me about how big Fraser's dick was and Ray Kowalski's favorite sexual activity.

[Poll #884355]

Comments

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Your linguistic geekiness is both hot and adorable. *g*

For insights into Sanskrit (and the studying thereof), drop into icarusancalion's LJ and poke around a bit. *big eyes*

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

I don't understand how it is that the only people I know doing linguistics stuff, are in fandom. And it seems like there are an awful lot of you.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

What, RADIO BUTTONS?

[refuses to answer, in protest over the absence of ticky boxes][torn, that is, between hittite and eskimo-aleut]

[brownbetty]

I've heard the Eskimo-Aleut makes strong men faint and drives weak men mad.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

Heee, I voted for Hittite, but I don't actually recommend it. Cuneiform kills souls!

[kalpurna.livejournal.com]

Um, isn't Hittite the language that cracked open the Proto-Indo-European laryngeal system for historical linguists, dramatically confirming Saussure's hypothesis about the three kinds of "H" in PIE, and helping to prove the systematic nature of sound change?

I REST MY CASE.

[zulu]

Eskimo-Aleut, no question. I've been in love since reading "Alaska" by James Michener. Oh, fifteen-year-old self. You were so crazy.

[mutecornett.livejournal.com]

Pidgins FTW!!

[copracat]

Sanskrit for sure because you can then read this in the original.

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Pidgins are like language 'shipping.

[eledhwenlin]

Sanskrit!

You know, I feel like I should talk to you more often (or at all, for that matter). Seeing as you're the only linguist I know online (I'm surrounded by language geeks all the time, when I'm offline, but strangely they don't have the right appreciation for Benton Fraser, which is a very sad thing).

[hobbledehoy.livejournal.com]

aren't these kind of different categories of things? does cuneiform go into written stuff? are the first two pre-colonization (hah!), so before pidgins and creoles, or were there creoles and pidgins of them? are the first two still alive, like sami is?

difficult.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

can't decide, but want to steal your brain.

also, you make me want to take the 'introduction to linguistics' evening class on offer at the local university. (taught by an italian PhD of undetermined* gender. possibly sexy? here's hoping.)


*by me - i expect he/she has a good idea.

[zeenell]

...*stares*

I hate you because I want them ALL. But I should chose sanskrit what with being in Indo-Pak. Even if the indo-pak thing is just for the food. Mhmmm. Samosias.

(My theology professor is convincing me to look into grad school for anthro-lingustics, so in about 4 years, I will not be complaining about attic greek and latin, but of other, cooler languages).

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I *love* your language posts. I don't say much, being only a language geek by proxy (I only know two languages, English and American) if even that. But I'll just sit here and admire.

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, LANGUAGE.

[frostfire-17.livejournal.com]

Hittite WINS! Because it's all about LOGOGRAMS and needing to know Sumerian AND Akkadian to read it.

(and, as someone pointed out above, it PRESERVES some of the PIE LARYNGEALS. I mean, CHRIST. What other language can say that? NONE, THAT'S WHO.)

um. finished my PIE final half an hour ago. I'm a tad nuts.

(and dude, Hoffner and Melchert's new Hittite grammar is being published VERY SOON and so there'll be like a REAL TEXTBOOK I'm excited!)

[askmehow.livejournal.com]

You rule. That is all.