What I have seen of this group is not limited by an interest in language. There seems to be a wide variety of interests, many of which center around questions like “How does this work?”, and “How can I make this work the way I want it to?”.

This ties into a secondary level of interest – how can I communicate my thoughts and ideas to others (people, computers, the cosmos and so on).

How many ways do you communicate throughout a day? How many ways do you combine those ways?

Linguistics is merely one vast discipline amongst many, but it is wildly flexible and subject to play because it can be melded on the sending end as well as massaged on the receiving end.

Also any form of play gets the creative juices flowing, and language is a fine way of communicating in a text based technology, such as PM.

Thanks for a great post ++

Enjoy!
Dageek

In reply to Re: Perl, Perlmonks & Linguistics by johndageek
in thread Perl, Perlmonks & Linguistics by g0n

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