i find that despite extra verbosity, trolls still sound the same. boring
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:15:44PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > You mean not everyone speaks enough latin to know the difference > > > between "exempli gratia" and "id est"? What is modern education > > > coming to. > > > > Well, here, in Russia, while English/German/French are more or less > > popular in the schools, Latin is being learned by specialists only > > (medicians, historians etc.) almost. And it's the way it is for about a > > century, if not more. > > I think historians and excavators are just about the only people that > should learn latin. It's also used most often by stupid people in an > attempt to sound cleverer than they are and dumbfound others needlessly > (lawyers and html editors for example). I can see an argument for cross > country dialect (maybe medicine) but there's certainly enough english > words for everything. > > Unless you need another language (I don't travel much unfortunately), > your just wasting your time, which is why I'm really happy to know > english as my first language. Atleast Latins taught via stories though > unlike french but the stories are usually crap and you wouldn't call > your kids Brutus and Quintus to sound clever, would you? > > The most valuable lesson I got possibly from education which probably > hampered some of my results was to realise what you actually NEED to > know and what is likely useful (minor obvious examples are learning the > order and causes of events and not the dates in history and writing > about a combo boiler because the computer paper was outdated and only > awarded marks for a tank system, I knew this but I'm a stubborn > bastard or if you prefer stupid rebel). When the education system > realises this, we will probably have a more productive society. > > I really hope it doesn't come to business run schools too, that spells > disaster to me. > > I know there's plenty of educational establishments that use OpenBSD, so > I hope your listening. Unfortunately they are probably the better > teachers.
