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Wurm42 t1_ja2sk5t wrote

Reply to comment by E_Snap in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged

"I need to do something SERIOUSLY escapist if I'm going to stay sane in the trenches of Flanders."

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Card_Zero t1_ja369xt wrote

For a certain value of sane.

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Wurm42 t1_ja3a7t1 wrote

Granted, it took a certain pre-existing level of obsessive nerdiness to set out to create an elvish language from scratch in a bomb shelter.

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