I have the Oxford UP blog's feed in my RSS/Atom reader solely to pick up Anatoly Liberman's weekly posts--one can get the category isolated only for web view, no thanks to Feedburner, and I won't paste in the link lest this comment be classified as spam, no thanks to LJ. Perhaps I have been influenced unduly by his little essays re: what counts as digression: he's a Russian emigré trained as a Germanic philologist who now writes principally in English, and thus one of the very few informed commentators upon English etymologies who can adduce or rule out related words in Slavic with some confidence. (Is that a tangent or the provision of a potentially interesting resource?) English isn't particularly vacuum-sealed.
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Date: 2013-01-18 08:47 pm (UTC)I have the Oxford UP blog's feed in my RSS/Atom reader solely to pick up Anatoly Liberman's weekly posts--one can get the category isolated only for web view, no thanks to Feedburner, and I won't paste in the link lest this comment be classified as spam, no thanks to LJ. Perhaps I have been influenced unduly by his little essays re: what counts as digression: he's a Russian emigré trained as a Germanic philologist who now writes principally in English, and thus one of the very few informed commentators upon English etymologies who can adduce or rule out related words in Slavic with some confidence. (Is that a tangent or the provision of a potentially interesting resource?) English isn't particularly vacuum-sealed.