If the Shoe Fits...

[sarge_5150]

From this entry:
After this brief exposure to linguistics, it seems to me that linguists are science-minded persons, who like words more than numbers, and are too nice to want to be lawyers.While I am neither a linguist nor do I play one on TV, I have always admired linguistics and had people assure me that I had the abilities to be either a

Comments

[halfmoon_mollie]

Hey. I work at a law school. It's only the BAD lawyers you hear about, there are more nice ones.

Honest.

[sarge_5150]

To be fair to the legal profession, I know one former attorney and have personally dealt with two others, one patent and one business. All three are perfectly reasonable people. So I do know that there are fine, upstanding legal eagles out there. My friend, the ex-divorce lawyer, left the practice because he didn't enjoy ripping into one half of a failed marriage. But there are those that either don't mind or enjoy it, too.

[hokelore]

When I was in college, I had a friend who was a grad student in linguictics. I took a basic linguistics class, and one time Frank helped with a couple of the problems in my homework. He helped me, but his explanations were almost over my head, yet I'm sure he dumbed them down.