Hopeless living anachronism now joining the ranks!

leicam5 said:

Welcome from Flanders Fields, and what is (are) Applied linguistics, is this what we call over here 'Filiologie'?

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Hi leicam5,

Applied Linguistics is a relatively new branch of linguistics that's interdisciplinary in nature, combining several fields like psychology, second language acquisition, pedagogy, etc. It's basically a study of how people acquire second languages and how to teach them.

Philology has more of a literary and historical background to it.

Welcome from Newmarket, Ontario - I have about 5 Pentax cameras which makes me a Pentaxian but also have few Nikons, Canons, Prakticas, Fujis and many more which makes me a camera nut, so you are in good company

naeroscatu said:

Welcome from Newmarket, Ontario - I have about 5 Pentax cameras which makes me a Pentaxian but also have few Nikons, Canons, Prakticas, Fujis and many more which makes me a camera nut, so you are in good company

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You are a pentapentaxian or quasqui-hecto-taxian.