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Show 'Letter to the Editor Too hard means irrelevant work Editor: Your article "Students Ask If Languages Are Relevant" Rele-vant" has finally added the last straw of absurdity to my burden. You wrote, "The charge of irrelevance of foreign languages is based mainly on the complaint that mastering a foreign language is just too hard." Imagine then if you will! I was a German major and I am now a candidate for a master's degree in the department de-partment of languages majoring in Comparative literature litera-ture struggling to conquer my second foreign language, lan-guage, when suddenly I'm told that it's all irrelevant. (I already know it's too hard.) Thank you. You just made me a living anachronism. Taking the above statement to its logical and ludicrous ludi-crous extension, as I always do, I find that getting up in the morning is too hard, therefore irrevelant; that struggling to get a parking place on this campus is too hard, therefore irrelevant; and finally that studying is too hard and therefore most certainly irrelevant. 1 With all these facts now clear, perhaps you could write Dr. Helbling, Chairman of the Department of Languages and my advisor Dr. Mickelsen for me and tell them that since the irrelevancy of all I have struggled strug-gled to do has been established and after all these years of busting my brains, they will henceforth find me in bed. It's just too hard (irrelevant) getting up in the morning. Richard Hevron |
