[AnAmericanMother]

Silly! His medical terminology is overwhelmingly Greek. Every time he gives you a jawbreaking name for some condition or disease, it's Greek. Bank on it. (I guess they got into the habit with Hippocrates and Galen.)

They can't read the Greek alphabet or even one line of the Bible or the Iliad in the original though. I suppose it's a useful kind of Greek, but not the kind I like. My Latin is really shaky (except for the Ordinary of the Mass and certain of the Psalms and antiphons, which I've learned by heart), but my Greek is good enough to read the Bible in the original. Fun if you want to know What They Really Said.

[Grunthor]

“His medical terminology is overwhelmingly Greek.”

I know this. My point was that if he wants me to understand what he’s talking about, he speaks english.