In which Danica talks about her grades and honors and knitting.

[arinellen]

LING3307.1 Australian Aboriginal Lang. COMPLETED 12.0 12.0 80 HD
PHIL2231.1 Philosophy East And West COMPLETED 6.0 6.0 66 CR

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[hotels_inthesea]

Hi! Er, you don't know me. Sorry!
I've just been Google-ing "linguistics at UWA" because i'm trying to figure out if I want to do it. I find linguistics interesting, but I have a very non-sciency brain and I'm not sure if my inner arts student is going to cave in when i get to second or third year.
So I was just wondering if you could tell me what it was like. Lots of work? Occasionally easy? Interesting? Mind numbing?
I would REALLY appreciate some inside information. :)

[arinellen]

Haha, well I am not friends with any of the Linguistics people that aren't sciency, unfortunately. I find that Linguistics is really similar (in grammar reconstructions and that sort of thing) to logic. There are some 'arts' stuff, in Aboriginal Languages and another 2nd year unit (I forget) has some really important essays you have to do

[hotels_inthesea]

Thanks! It sounds really cool. Looks like i might be postponing it for a while but your insight is really helpful, i never like to trust the overviews on the uni website. Fortunately for me, i find grammar stuff really interesting so maybe that would help me get through it.
Thankyou once again!

[hotels_inthesea]

actually I do have one more question - what on earth IS Forensic Linguistics?

[arinellen]

Forensics: anything to do with the law/justic system

So basically it's any where Linguistics is important in aresting to the courts. So Linguists testifying in copyright, writing analysis, understanding language (in cases of understanding their rights etc. or what they are saying) and that sort of stuff.

Basically lots of things. But usually reffers to Linguists testifying, rather then translating and that sort of stuff.