... I believe we're only doing the first two parts of the book, but that's not important right now... ... Right! Well, unfortunately, it's rather large -- to...
... Thank, Lorrie, for your great efforts on this. I would like to add a qualification to the above generous offer. We'll do all we can to provide the text...
Subject headings for WT sections will be as follows-- The first essay or chapter--Urth's Well-- will be referred to as WT1. The second chapter--The Prevalence...
Heya all, I've got a real quick question: Will the note references, index, and works cited chapters be made available? There's a few notes in the first two...
... Well, the 11 September stuff and the anthrax and the war and all kind of took the fun out of Guerber for me. Manny Olds Chiefest ball-dropper on that one...
Well, the 11 September stuff and the anthrax and the war and all kind of took the fun out of Guerber for me. My Guerber-containing briefcase was lost or stolen...
... P.S. My Franklin day planner contains juicy personal writings going back 2 and 3 years. Please don't report back on those parts. :( Tim [Non-text...
... And did we mention the apartment fire and the "temporarily between employment" and ... ? By the gods, I am *really* glad to escape from 2001 and into the...
Greetings, OK, I know it's not Jan. 7th yet, but maybe since this question is of such a general nature that I can sneak it in early. In Bauschatz' Foreword he...
... Standing on one foot: Philology was the old, unscientific study of languages. Linguistics is the new, scientific study of languages. It is like the...
... So it sounds like the term should be abandoned, and we'll talk about linguistics instead, right? Thanks. Tim [Non-text portions of this message have been...
By popular demand, and now available at: http://www.snugharbor.com/~lwood/wellandtree/ welltree.zip -- EVERYTHING: all the PDF files: 23.1 MB essays.zip...
... Huzzah! Great job, Lorrie! Don't just sit there, people! Toast this woman!! :D Cyndy "3. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. If you were an Outer...
Thanks, Lorrie. Got the downloads and will try to participate in the discussions as much as possible. Dan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
RIght now I am reading the Heimskringla by Snorri Sturlson and I am finding it fascinating. There is a really great novel or mini series for somebody to write...
In a message dated 1/5/02 11:06:50 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... An important work, since some of the key points of our myth come from it. The list of future...
Greetings, Books' Forewords can be a mixed bag. We're supposed to read them, but they can sometimes be boring or hopelessly obscure. This one to the present...
I agree, which is one of the reasons I started learning old norse. When he describes how certain things were translated back in antiquity; i.e. brunnr =...
... Yes. And even that statement is cultural-specific to a degree. I mean, we have exactly the type of cultural concepts and linguistic tools we need to live...
Tim wrote-- ... distant ... Bauschatz write, "Most simply put, it is that Germanic culture was dominated by its conception of its own past." Very unlike the...
... I think you're very right about this; another piece of evidence is a general lack of regard and respect for our old people still alive, let alone the past ...
On page xiii--Bauschatz mentions that all Germanic languages have evolved a binary system of tenses for their verbs. Since I am not sure that we are going to...