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John T. Harding Non-Traditional Student J What can you possibly do with a degree in linguistics? friends ask. My wife ' s answer: Become a teacher and persuade ten other people to study linguistics. My own answer is that I ' m al- ready using linguistics. In journal- ism, covering the telecommuni- cations and computer industries; in a newsletter I write on the use, misuse and abuse of the English language in America and in oc- casional magazine articles. Linguistics is far more than the study of grammar. In fact, a grammar in only one way of de- scribing how a language works; moreover, all grammars leak. There are other ways of describ- ing how a language functions. One of the most useful courses I took in the six-year, part-time road to degreedom at MSC (af- ter an 18-year hiatus) was The Language of Propaganda. Poli- ticians may be more notorious for using language to sway public opinion, but corporate execu- tives do it, too. To a journalist, knowing how these techniques function is the first step in getting past the smokescreen of petti- foggery to the truth. John T. Harding (BA in Linguistics and English. January, 1987) has 23 years experience in journalism and writes on telecommunica- tions, computers and consumer electronics for the business sec- tion of The Star-Ledger. Newark. In addition, he writes and publish- es ' ' Editor ' s Revenge. a newslet- ter on usage. And he has been known to march through the Stu- dent Center cafeteria on March 17 playing the bagpipes.
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Lq Compona: Coach, whor was ir liKe ro win rhe World Series? Whor was ir like ro be rhere for rhe final gome? Cooney: Going inro rhe final day, rhe chom pionship gome was ogoinsr o ream rhar had o ream barring overoge of .428, which was phe nomenol. They ser on NCAA record for ream barring averoge. We bear rhem rhe previous day, 13-4, ond now rhey hod ro bear us rwice on rhe final day Ir was o gome where we jumped our ro an early lead, rhey gor close, we increased our lead, rhey gor close. They ried ir and in rhe rop of rhe ninrh inning rhey wenr oheod by one run. We came in for rhe borrom of rhe ninrh and I rold rhe ployers we hod rhem exocrly where we wanred rhem — we were losing The firsr borrer come up, our shorrsrop Jim Fosono, and hir a home run down rhe righr field line. Ir really pumped everybody up. Lq Campono: I could imagine whor ir musr have been like on rhe bench. They musr have been going crazy. Cooney: Oh, rhey were. I was coaching rhird bose and, ro be honesr wirh you, ir broughr rears ro my eyes. Ir wos pure excire- menr. Jimmy wos jumping and poinring or me as he ron rhe bases . Ir gor everybody fired up Then we gor a single. Then a good home run hirrer, Pepe Herrero, rurned our ro hir whor looked like rhe gome-winning home run. This ball was hir deep and high down rhe lefr field line. My wife hos o picrure of me or home: I ' m rwo feer off rhe ground worching rhe boll. And you see all rhe players ore our of rhe dugour, jusr poised ond woiring ro see rhe ball go over rhe fence Dur rhe lefr fielder coughr rhe ball He made Tremendous corch, and doubled rhe runner off or firsr ro end rhe inning. So we wenr from vicrory ro ' Oh my God, we hove ro go and rry ro ger rhese guys our ogoin. ' I was in rorol shods. I jusr sor down in my choir in rhe dugour. 1 wos really emorlonolly drained. Lq CampQno: Did you soy onyrhing ro rhe ployers ' Cooney: No, I didn ' r soy onyrhing To be honesr wirh you, coaches ore always sup- posed ro hove on answer ond I didn ' r. Jimmy Fosono, rhe kid who hod hir rhe home run ro rie rhe gome, gor everybody our of rhe dug our quid-;. Insreod of sirring rhere brooding abour ir, slowly gerring rheir gloves, he said ler ' s ger our rhere. ' We were ried. We really weren ' r in bod shope because we were rhe home ream. They [Wisconsin] proceeded ro score o run ro go ahead in rhe rop of rhe renrh inning. We came in, and ogoin we were in rhar siruo- i; . o-.£5 i£ .n ' 3 ' ' •.wMg»J5 rion — we were behind. The firsr player up singled. The nexr player up was Leroy Horn. We decided he ' s nor a good bunrer so we didn ' r wonr ro bunr, alrhough rhar wos rhe proper rhing ro do in rhar siruorion. He swings ond misses or a lor of pirches so we didn ' r wonr ro hir-and-run. So I rold Leroy, Ger o pirch you con hir our of rhe ball pork. ' He looked or me and loughed The counr wenr ro rhree and one and he gor o pirch, he hir ir our of rhe boll pork and we won. All hell broke loose. You soy ' whor wos ir like? ' I saw rhe boll os ir srorred up in rhe oir and knew ir was our. I rhrew my hor up in rhe air ond jusr srorred doing somersauirs on rhe ground along rhe rhird bose line. My shorrsrop come our ond jumped on rop of me and jusr srorred hugging me and bearing on me. We were borh laying flor on rhe ground os Leroy ran posr us inro home plare. My Qssisranr coaches were holding every- one bock from rhe field because if you rouch rhe runner before he scores, rhe borrer is our. They were srroining, pushing oil rhese excired players bock. Lo ComponQ: Your players probably weren ' r rhinking obour rhe rules or rhis poinr. Cooney: Hell no. Ir was jusr on emorionol ourbursr. A very, very emorionol ourbursr by everyone. People were hugging, crying. I mean, you see rhis scene repeored over and over and over. Lq CompQno: On rhe World Series, yeah. bur ofrer going rhrough o gome like rhor . . . Cooney: Yes, ir was very emorionol. Ir wos olmosr Q four hour gome. Ir was a difficulr series. Agoin, when you ' re nor expecred ro win . . . Ir was rhe mosr exciring rhing. I said ro reporrers or rhe rime rhor rhe only rime I ' ve ever feir rhis happy ond spenr was when I sow my son being born. Thor ' s rhe only comparison I con moke ro onyrhing I ' ve ever experienced in my liferime . . . There was on imprompru rwenry-five minure demonsrrorion rhor oc- curred when rhe gome wos over. Ir rook o long rime before rhey could colm our people down and hand our rhe awards . . . Ir wos rhe ulrimore experience of o liferime. - Dy Mike Woods
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