Dear List,

 

 I have been having an offlist conversation with a few list members about my statement "I am a Vedicist...."

 

One person pointed out a similar remark by Margaret Mead: "Nothing human is alien to me."

 

What inspired me was a Latin remark made by the great Russian linguist, Roman Jakobson, a paraphrase from the Roman  playwright Terence:

 

From Wikipedia:

One famous quotation by Terence reads: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me." This appeared in his play Heauton Timorumenos.

My version of Jakobson's paraphrase, which I sent to a list member a little while ago, is:

"I am a linguist; there is nothing in linguistics that I consider foreign to me."

Perhaps the List in general might find this of interest.

Best wishes,

George Thompson