[Rashputin]

Ahhh, Grasshopper tries the "ignorance is bliss !!!" gambit.

Most people don't know how to be responsible parents, work for a living, or even utter a complete sentence without an obscenity in it. By your standard there's no reason whatsoever to bother trying to change any of that.

Thanks for making the point that resisting our national slide down the toilet is futile.

[SampleMan]

If you don't learn Latin as your primary language, and you think in English when you read it, then you don't understand Latin. Thinking that you understand Latin in a context separate from your native language definitions of it is just delusional.

No language translates perfectly into another language, so if Latin isn't your primary language, you must translate it, and you must get as close as you can in your language, i.e. the vernacular. You can eith leave that to every individual to do on their own, or you can get a scholar who understands both the Latin and the Greek, which the Latin was likely translated from to begin with.

If you were half as smart as you think you are, you would half-way understand what you don't know on this subject.

[SampleMan]

Most people don't know how to be responsible parents, work for a living, or even utter a complete sentence without an obscenity in it. By your standard there's no reason whatsoever to bother trying to change any of that.

I missed this little straw-man jewel the first time.

So yes, of course, it totally follows that if I don't have a problem with the use of vernacular language in Mass, that I think everyone should be as ignorant as possible.

I knew I couldn't hide that connection from you. A truly masterful piece of deductive reasoning and causal application you have going on there. I'm just shocked that you couldn't also conclude that I'm a secret Obama supporter and card carrying Marxist.

People who cannot carry on a conversation in English don't get smarter when they attempt it in Latin. Nunc tace.