"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Friday, December 11, 2015
Language Change
Calvert Watkins (1933-2013), "Language and Its History," Daedalus 102.3 (Summer, 1973) 99-111 (at 100):
The great Irish philologist
Osborn Bergin once remarked wryly that no language had changed
so much in the last fifty years as Indo-European.