Hi there I m just curious by your recent entry in the Philology introduction The commonality not the origin or age of any studied languages is important thought those factors are important Could you add maybe one more line to define what you mean by commonality Do you mean commonality of academic opinion agreed upon terms of what the a particualr word might mean in a historical context And I m guessing that the factors you indicate that are important are the origin and age of any given word I really ca nt quite see what you might think was insulting about the introduction I did nt write it by the way I think the point of the intro was to define where the word philology came from In latin it means grammatica Greek I recall that philo means love and logo well i do nt know But the origin of the word i imagine can have a number of sources That is what makes words interesting and vibrant to me I hope you can help clarify my question I just think your entry could open a whole other line of questioning about the nature of philology It is why i entered the concept that Nietzsche was a radical philologist Anyway some food for thought User talk Drakonicon