http://blogs.uw.edu/ajko/2009/01/09/why-do-researchers-choose-the-disciplines-they-do/ Musings about software and the world's attempt to understand it Sat, 07 May 2011 05:07:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://blogs.uw.edu/ajko/2009/01/09/why-do-researchers-choose-the-disciplines-they-do/comment-page-1/#comment-12 andyjko Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:24:35 +0000 http://andyjko.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/why-do-researchers-choose-the-disciplines-they-do/#comment-12 Thanks for sharing! It always seems a little crazy that anyone researches anything. It requires what seems to me an unnatural degree of persistence and curiosity, which makes humanity all the more intriguing of a creature. Thanks for sharing! It always seems a little crazy that anyone researches anything. It requires what seems to me an unnatural degree of persistence and curiosity, which makes humanity all the more intriguing of a creature.

]]> http://blogs.uw.edu/ajko/2009/01/09/why-do-researchers-choose-the-disciplines-they-do/comment-page-1/#comment-11 protovietic Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:39:17 +0000 http://andyjko.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/why-do-researchers-choose-the-disciplines-they-do/#comment-11 i remember clearly the day i became a linguist. i was sitting in a french renaissance thought class in north carolina. the professor had given us a chapter of a book to read for class that day. the reading was about historical french linguistics. we read about all of the idiomatic expressions the grammar of which now seems confusing. the author of the book explained where they came from socially and grammatically. he also discussed many other expressions with parallel structures which have now fallen out of use in the french language. that was it. right then. seventeen years old i became a linguist. twelve years later i am still trying to answer questions i had after reading that chapter. questions about language change. questions about meaning. questions about why communities embrace one expression and abandon others. i remember clearly the day i became a linguist. i was sitting in a french renaissance thought class in north carolina. the professor had given us a chapter of a book to read for class that day. the reading was about historical french linguistics. we read about all of the idiomatic expressions the grammar of which now seems confusing. the author of the book explained where they came from socially and grammatically. he also discussed many other expressions with parallel structures which have now fallen out of use in the french language. that was it. right then. seventeen years old i became a linguist. twelve years later i am still trying to answer questions i had after reading that chapter. questions about language change. questions about meaning. questions about why communities embrace one expression and abandon others.

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