Re: English syllable structure

Re: Patrick Dunn on Wednesday, December 12, 2001 4:24 AM

> > > I'm a
> > > philologist, not a linguist.
> >
> > I'm so sorry for my ignorance, but what's the difference?
>
> A philologist is a "lover of words," usually the words of his or her
> native language.  It's not used much anymore, the word, but I've always
> liked it.
The reason I asked: In my diploma it is written "philologist, teacher of
English" &c. Though I feel myself as a "linguist". Still in Russian both
{filólog} and {lingvíst} look like synonyms. And we have one more word, of
local origin: {jazykovéd} lit. "the one who studies/knows language"...

Yitzik

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