How I Learned to Be a Linguist

From the time he was 12 I knew I was going to do linguistics and my father worked at the University of the West Indies. My mother said but from the sound of what these people are doing in MIT do you have to be a science student? So suddenly you find yourself very comfortable talking to medical people or the notion of an operating system. It's just a sometimes surprising to me that all these questions didn't occur to a whole lot of other people because many people are working on all these issues to do with Indian languages.

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