Well it was a stupid time wasting thread in the first place, atleast now it has some value!
Due to use you could almost deem e.g. to be an english word and so I see no problem with it, but the latin equivalent, certainly isn't used. On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:20:50 +0100 Nicholas Marriott <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 about a combo boiler because the computer paper was outdated and only 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.
