What do you do with linguistics?After college?
Mhmm.You teach linguistics.
Okay, if I was taking a class in linguistics from you what would I be learning about?The various parts of sentences and words and how words are formed, like prefixes and suffixes and syllables. And … prescriptive and descriptive grammar, and then grammar that’s used maybe in like a ghetto or something. They have grammar; it’s just not the grammar you learn in school.
So kind of like slang?Mhmm.
What’s your favorite slang word?Good question. I don’t know! I don’t know that I can answer that, I can’t think of enough right now.
Is there a difference between slang and lingo?Um, yes. I think slang, to me, has a certain connotation, like a negative connotation. Kind of like an offensive word perhaps. Where lingo is, I think, generally more like a shortened term.
I’m going to try to recall some memory I have of linguistics. I remember subject and predicate, is that correct?Mhmm.
Okay. And that’s it. Hmm … so why are you interested in linguistics?It’s just a really – I don’t know – I really like putting sentences into trees, It’s like really organized and you can –
Wait. Sentences into trees?Yeah, you put ’em, kinda like, y’know a number into a tree of its primaries or whatever?