Hitchhiker's Guide to Linguists
Don't tell my thesis advisors, but I've been doing a lot of leisure reading over these past six weeks of classroom-free time. My current reading material is The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-- I'm now on the third book. I'm really, really enjoying the Guide, as I'm sure all of my real-life friends are now tired of hearing. One of the highlights of the series is the funny quotes about linguistics that are peppered throughout. I'm going to make good use of one of them in the front matter of my thesis. Just now I came across another, one which immediately reminded me of the linguistic blogosphere and inspired this entry: "There was no sound on the wind beyond the now familiar sound of half-crazed etymologists calling to each other across the sullen mire." (p. 354 of my edition-- end of Ch. 7, Life, the Universe, and Everything)
I'm sooo part of that sound.
I'm sooo part of that sound.
2 Comments:
There is definitely something about those books... I've already also chosen one quote from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe for the front matter of my own thesis. I also remember Milan Rezac quoting The Guide in his thesis acknowledgements. Maybe it's a linguistics trait, in the same way that stereotypical physicists quote from Star Trek constantly.
Ka-kaw! Ka-kaw!
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