Crisis in the Department of Weekend Linguistics?

Googleplex
April 22, 2012

The Department of Weekend Linguistics at SuCH has been a reliable source of free entertainment for several months now. Its output has been phenomenal in quantity and entertainment quality. However, reliable sources indicate that the department has been going through a crisis lately. The crisis has slowed down the department's research group and diluted the focus of its key staff. One indication of the ongoing crisis is the lack of any new Weekend Linguistics studies published this past weekend. Sources indicate that the department is experiencing mission creep and a dilution of its focus. While the department has always been inter-disciplinary in nature, inside sources indicate that the department has been embroiled in several problems in which its faculty have no prior experience.

The department was set up to conduct internet research over the weekend (and some weekday evenings, time permitting) into linguistics questions. Some of the best-known work of the department was in the area of making far-fetched assertions regarding Indian languages, based on misleading scraps of information gleaned from internet research. Although unconnected with linguistics, hagiographies of long-dead despots have also gotten some attention from the department. In general the department chose enlightened despots who are on balance considered in favorable light by historians, and published copiously about everything connected to those despots. Sources suggest that it is this area that has landed the department in trouble. Stretching the limits of its research capabilities, the department recently started publishing hagiographies of much-reviled not-so-long-dead despots who are seen by history in a generally unfavorable light. This exercise has taken up most of the department's resources, and has resulted in a lack of any linguistics work this weekend.

According to our informed sources, morale is running at a low in the department, and leadership is reevaluating its strategic focus. It is expected that changes will be made to the research plans going forward. Fans of the department are eagerly awaiting the department's return to its core topic of Weekend Linguistics, and they hope to see more research in this discipline published soon. Particularly hard-hit are children fans, who did not receive a new installment in the comic strip series The Exciting Adventures of the Weekend Linguist. It is to be hoped, for the sake of these poor children, that the department finds its way out of this crisis soon.

charvaka wrote:Googleplex
April 22, 2012

The Department of Weekend Linguistics at SuCH has been a reliable source of free entertainment for several months now. Its output has been phenomenal in quantity and entertainment quality. However, reliable sources indicate that the department has been going through a crisis lately. The crisis has slowed down the department's research group and diluted the focus of its key staff. One indication of the ongoing crisis is the lack of any new Weekend Linguistics studies published this past weekend. Sources indicate that the department is experiencing mission creep and a dilution of its focus. While the department has always been inter-disciplinary in nature, inside sources indicate that the department has been embroiled in several problems in which its faculty have no prior experience.

The department was set up to conduct internet research over the weekend (and some weekday evenings, time permitting) into linguistics questions. Some of the best-known work of the department was in the area of making far-fetched assertions regarding Indian languages, based on misleading scraps of information gleaned from internet research. Although unconnected with linguistics, hagiographies of long-dead despots have also gotten some attention from the department. In general the department chose enlightened despots who are on balance considered in favorable light by historians, and published copiously about everything connected to those despots. Sources suggest that it is this area that has landed the department in trouble. Stretching the limits of its research capabilities, the department recently started publishing hagiographies of much-reviled not-so-long-dead despots who are seen by history in a generally unfavorable light. This exercise has taken up most of the department's resources, and has resulted in a lack of any linguistics work this weekend.

According to our informed sources, morale is running at a low in the department, and leadership is reevaluating its strategic focus. It is expected that changes will be made to the research plans going forward. Fans of the department are eagerly awaiting the department's return to its core topic of Weekend Linguistics, and they hope to see more research in this discipline published soon. Particularly hard-hit are children fans, who did not receive a new installment in the comic strip series The Exciting Adventures of the Weekend Linguist. It is to be hoped, for the sake of these poor children, that the department finds its way out of this crisis soon.

Looks like the Rashmunitis virus has caught you as well.

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charvaka wrote:Googleplex
April 22, 2012

The Department of Weekend Linguistics at SuCH has been a reliable source of free entertainment for several months now. Its output has been phenomenal in quantity and entertainment quality. However, reliable sources indicate that the department has been going through a crisis lately. The crisis has slowed down the department's research group and diluted the focus of its key staff. One indication of the ongoing crisis is the lack of any new Weekend Linguistics studies published this past weekend. Sources indicate that the department is experiencing mission creep and a dilution of its focus. While the department has always been inter-disciplinary in nature, inside sources indicate that the department has been embroiled in several problems in which its faculty have no prior experience.

The department was set up to conduct internet research over the weekend (and some weekday evenings, time permitting) into linguistics questions. Some of the best-known work of the department was in the area of making far-fetched assertions regarding Indian languages, based on misleading scraps of information gleaned from internet research. Although unconnected with linguistics, hagiographies of long-dead despots have also gotten some attention from the department. In general the department chose enlightened despots who are on balance considered in favorable light by historians, and published copiously about everything connected to those despots. Sources suggest that it is this area that has landed the department in trouble. Stretching the limits of its research capabilities, the department recently started publishing hagiographies of much-reviled not-so-long-dead despots who are seen by history in a generally unfavorable light. This exercise has taken up most of the department's resources, and has resulted in a lack of any linguistics work this weekend.

According to our informed sources, morale is running at a low in the department, and leadership is reevaluating its strategic focus. It is expected that changes will be made to the research plans going forward. Fans of the department are eagerly awaiting the department's return to its core topic of Weekend Linguistics, and they hope to see more research in this discipline published soon. Particularly hard-hit are children fans, who did not receive a new installment in the comic strip series The Exciting Adventures of the Weekend Linguist. It is to be hoped, for the sake of these poor children, that the department finds its way out of this crisis soon.

Looks like the Rashmunitis virus has caught you as well.

LOL, yes. It is infectious.