A Love Letter to Language: December Writing Prompt

Monthly writing prompt for December, and some thoughts on language and linguistics

I identify as many things.

My soul is a writer. My physical body is an artist. My heart is a teacher.

But my brain… my brain is first and foremost a linguist.

Why Linguistics?

I stumbled into the field of linguistics as an undergrad through a series of happy accidents, and can remember quite clearly the palpable excitement I felt when I realized this was an…