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And the thought appeared in my head... linguistics.
Linguistics is a science, and there are any number of easy experiments a child could do in linguistics, with pretty much NO equipment or fancy training. Talk about cost effective! And there is clearly a need for linguistics education in this country. (I'm not even just saying that because I'm interested in the subject. I'm saying that because it pains me to see people, interested people, struggle to talk about linguistics concepts that interest them because they simply don't even realize that there's a vocabulary for this.)
And yet, somehow, there's also pretty much no intro texts into the subject that are accessible to the general public, particularly children. (Well, I mean, there's the Language Construction Kit, and I won't insult it, but I'm thinking more experimental than going full-on conlang.) And the more I think about it, the more I think there might actually be a market for this. A small one, maybe, but maybe not - people really are interested in language.
Linguistics is a science, and there are any number of easy experiments a child could do in linguistics, with pretty much NO equipment or fancy training. Talk about cost effective! And there is clearly a need for linguistics education in this country. (I'm not even just saying that because I'm interested in the subject. I'm saying that because it pains me to see people, interested people, struggle to talk about linguistics concepts that interest them because they simply don't even realize that there's a vocabulary for this.)
And yet, somehow, there's also pretty much no intro texts into the subject that are accessible to the general public, particularly children. (Well, I mean, there's the Language Construction Kit, and I won't insult it, but I'm thinking more experimental than going full-on conlang.) And the more I think about it, the more I think there might actually be a market for this. A small one, maybe, but maybe not - people really are interested in language.
