So, I heard that Nietzsche, Goebbels, and Tolkien were philologists. What exactly is philology? Is it still a field of study today?
>>25372938This isn't a search engine dipshit
>>25372958Shut the fuck up bitch and tell me my fucking answerGaddamn it
>>25372938>Goebbelslol
>>25372938It's the study of how words and languages are formed, and it's interesting as fuck.A grounding in philology enables you to invent neologisms, or in Tolkien's case, entire languages.