[from the friday five via Redwood Dragon] If you ...
Posted by jim at March 20, 2004 05:41 PM | TrackBack
- ... owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
Ligurian, but I’d rather not be a restaurateur.
- ... owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?
Since my mother’s brothers and father are / were haberdashers and because I've worked in the IT industry so long, I’d be likely to open a wearable computer store, but I’d rather not work retail.
- ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?
Postmodern, utopianist, fabulist encyclopedia of imaginary languages. I’m working on it right now. Well, not right now, because I’m procrastinating by writing in my blog. Maybe it’d be a bit bloggish, too. I also would like to write a Zeneise-Kölsch dictionary of invective.
- ... ran a school, what would you teach?
Linguistics, especially comparative-historical linguistics and its application to the grammar of artificial languages.
- ... recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
I’ve written a libretto for an opera. It has been performed in Austria and the USA, and it was both times recorded. For more information or MP3 files to download, see the composer’s website. I’m working on a couple of other libretti, when I’m not procrastinating on the great American novel.
I’d rather not be a restauranteur
Not to get all prescriptivist or anything, but the usual spelling is restaurateur. (It's 'one who restores,' whereas "restaurant" is 'restoring,' hence the -ant.)
I look forward to the book!
Posted by: language hat on March 21, 2004 11:31 AMThanks, LH. It's been corrected. Never was any good at spelling, and my condition has been aggrevated by years of exposure to linguistics.
Posted by: jim on March 21, 2004 02:24 PM