All That Is Gold (click)

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That being said, I'd say I've been a student of languages all my life, since a took Spanish on Saturdays from a cute nun when I was in eighth grade and approaching puberty. But that's another story...

Besides my one year of Spanish, I studied Latin for 6 years, Greek for 2, and German forever. I worked as a German linguist in the U.S. Army in Berlin, and I've tutored Latin and German.

Through the years, I've developed my own Holy Grail of linguistics to seek. I'm convinced that there's a key to the development of languages, and a synergistic role of language in the development of cultures and peoples and philosophies. We are limited by what our languages cannot express, but we are also empowered by what our languages CAN express - and those abilities and inabilities serve to direct the development of our cultures and philosophies and who knows what else.

I think this holy grail key is a very simple thing that nobody has found yet. But it's interesting to ponder and explore.

-Joe-