[theFIRMbss]

> Linguistics is mildly interesting, but of limited application.

Yikes! This in a place
where Ayn Rand is respected...
Language is a tool

of cognition. Thought
is language! Understanding
linguistics can help

understand thinking.
Can anything have a more
broad application?!

[Mamzelle]

You're confusing, I believe, a system of descriptive phonetic and grammatical analysis with the philosophy of rhetoric. I suspect you think linguistics is something other than what it is. Language is a tool of ideas, and you learn to wield it chiefly from long practice actually composing and using. In metaphor, you don't play a violyn by studying the constuction of the instrument.