Melroch @ Random

7 February, 2008

Philological near-omniscience

Filed under: Alternate history, Opinions — Tags: , — melroch @ 10:35

On Romconlang Peter Collier wrote:

Once more I find myeself torn, BP, between awe at your philological near-omniscience, and despair as yet again I find myself reconsidering linguistic points I thought I had firmly pinned down….

Trying to sort even the bare bones of this language is like trying to herd cats.

P

I sure hope I haven’t achieved even near philological omniscience. For one thing the leading passion of my life would be spent already in mid-life, and for the other I know best how many books I’ve read only cursorily or not at all — I do hope they were not written in vain!

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