objectives” when they refer to what they are trying to accomplish. A student’s vocabulary may range all the way from dispensing “superunleaded” or eating “BLTs” to debating “the eschatology of the Olivet Discourse”—all in the same day! Mastering the terminology of linguistics is simply a matter of learning what various words mean and how they are used. I could never hope to master all of the topics covered in linguistics. There is, of course, nothing unusual about this apprehension. Most modern sciences