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Old 01-16-2018, 03:18 PM   #167 (permalink)
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Linguistics and etymology are fascinating.
History in general is the best. I mean people actually did, said, and lived things that are now just words on a page. It's almost creepy tbh. But yes linguistics and etymology rule. Language in many ways shapes or at least reflects psychology and lost languages are almost like lost human nature.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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