An Introduction to Philology - A Little of What Tolkien Knew

I recently gave a presentation on philology to Humanities students who had never heard of the term. I present the same introduction to you, which is more on the application than technical side of things.
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[@Kid_Ikaris]

Language is soul recorded. Philology is the study of this record.

[@LatinxMatt]

This is a great introduction video, I am so glad this is on the Internet.

[@LatinxMatt]

also do more philology plz

[@LiamsLyceum]

@@LatinxMatthappy to help! I’ll have a more philological video this Wednesday, most are the old and occasional poem, like Bagme Bloma by Tolkien.

[@stoicepictetus3875]

Good video. Thank you for your clear explanation.

[@DavidWiley7]

I wish I had a stronger love for Philology, but I'm absolutely here for you doing more of these!

[@LiamsLyceum]

You like words well enough. 🫡

[@AnEruditeAdventure]

Just pausing to comment on the Tongue/Language conversation. I’m sure you already know it (and perhaps bring it up later in the video), but it’s an interesting observation to me, who also uses both “tongue” and “language” interchangeably.
In Spanish there is “lengua”, which means “tongue”, and “idioma”, which means language. But “lengua” is also used for “language”.

[@LiamsLyceum]

I didn’t know that about Spanish, but it makes sense. The French word “langue” denotes both the body part and language, though there is a French word “idiome” that means language but it is really, really rare. I believe the Old Occitan word for language/tongue is “lengua” which looks more like the Spanish, unsurprisingly. I think the modern word is “lenga”.

[@AnEruditeAdventure]

@@LiamsLyceum unsurprising that those languages would be pretty similar to Spanish. I’ll have to see what other things I notice as I continue through your video here. Not sure when I’ll be able to get back to it.

[@rachilarious]

How does the Latin 'natus' become the Spanish 'nacer'? Do T's often have a knack for becoming C's in that specific leap?

[@robertshaw5812]

I'd like to watch this but the screen is out of focus.

[@LiamsLyceum]

Not sure what the problem is, looks good from my end

[@robertshaw5812]

@@LiamsLyceumthank you - would love to be able to read the text on the slides