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[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was a philology teacher, so that's indeed the case. You see it with how much details the language have, like real languages dialects and evolution. It was really his craft.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Philology Professor at Oxford, no less.