![lingllama:
[Picture: Background: Black. Foreground: 6 pictures in 2 rows: Hands with “job” and “less” written on them, a book called “The History of the English Language”, a pile of foreign language dictionaries, a chalkboard with simple words in Spanish written on it, a picture of Noam Chomsky, and a spectrogram. Top text: “[Linguistics majors]” Bottom text: “[What my family thinks I do, what my friends think I do, what society thinks I do, what hard science majors think I do, what I think I do, and what I actually do]”]
No else is probably going to this is funny, but I do and that’s all that matters.
BTW, that last picture is of a spectrogram showing the formants of vowels - where the voice resonates. By measuring the frequency of the resonations we can tell what vowel is being said - how far front or back the tongue is in the mouth, whether there is lip rounding, or the position of the jaw. This is helpful for performing research into 2nd language acquisition, teaching foreign languages as well as mapping dialects of languages. I used to do this for a living back when I was university doing research as a linguistics student.
Also it’s kinda fun.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzgagoOgPS1qhh9hgo1_1280.jpg)
[Picture: Background: Black. Foreground: 6 pictures in 2 rows: Hands with “job” and “less” written on them, a book called “The History of the English Language”, a pile of foreign language dictionaries, a chalkboard with simple words in Spanish written on it, a picture of Noam Chomsky, and a spectrogram. Top text: “[Linguistics majors]” Bottom text: “[What my family thinks I do, what my friends think I do, what society thinks I do, what hard science majors think I do, what I think I do, and what I actually do]”]
No else is probably going to this is funny, but I do and that’s all that matters.
BTW, that last picture is of a spectrogram showing the formants of vowels - where the voice resonates. By measuring the frequency of the resonations we can tell what vowel is being said - how far front or back the tongue is in the mouth, whether there is lip rounding, or the position of the jaw. This is helpful for performing research into 2nd language acquisition, teaching foreign languages as well as mapping dialects of languages. I used to do this for a living back when I was university doing research as a linguistics student.
Also it’s kinda fun.
