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To: TASMANIANRED

I am neither a doctor, a lawyer or a scientist. Latin is as foreign a language to me as is the “click-click” language of some african tribes.


147 posted on 12/30/2010 8:08:15 AM PST by Grunthor (Silence is golden, Duct Tape is silver.)
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To: Grunthor

I’m so very happy that you celebrate your ignorance.


155 posted on 12/30/2010 4:28:41 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (Liberals are educated above their level of intelligence.. Thanks Sr. Angelica)
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To: Grunthor
I am neither a doctor, a lawyer or a scientist. Latin is as foreign a language to me as is the “click-click” language of some african tribes.

Even allowing for hyperbole, that isn't accurate.

Doctors mostly speak Greek, lawyers speak a bastardized Latin/law French hybrid, and scientists (at least chemists - I'm married to one) have German as their second tongue because that's the language most chemical abstracts are published in.

You speak an awful lot of Latin without recognizing it, because while English is Anglo-Saxon based, it acquired a huge number of Latin-derived words after the Norman Conquest.

In fact, looking back I see all sorts of Latin just in what I've written -- acquire, recognize, accurate, abstract, language, chemical -- and that's without resort to a dictionary.

That's the reason your high school teachers told you that one year of Latin was worth 200 points on the verbal portion of the SAT.

157 posted on 12/30/2010 6:26:21 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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