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Teaching latin to redditors was one of the worst mistakes the west has done

Only superseded by telling them that they are clever for that (and all the genocide)

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    27 days ago

    My grandfather was fond of remarking with a limerick any time latin came up, because he was old as dirt and had to learn it in school:

    Latin is a dead language,

    As dead as dead can be,

    It killed the ancient Romans,

    And now it's killing me.

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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    27 days ago

    Chuds have been ruining Latin for well over a hundred years. British linguists back in the day had to due some revisionist stuff since they wanted to claim that English had its roots in only 'noble' and fancy languages like Latin, instead of being a bastardized offshoot of German with some French and Latin smattering it.

    Anyway, let's stop fawning over Latin. It's time to channel our inner caveman and start learning the Proto Indo-European they toss around in Far Cry: Primal.

    • mayo_cider [he/him]
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      27 days ago

      The chuds promised we would be speaking arabic in five years

      Inshallah

  • Vampire [any]
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    26 days ago

    Everyone should learn Latin at school or you don't know nuthin.

    But this is just stock phrases. This person probably can't decline the five declensions.

    • mayo_cider [he/him]
      hexagon
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      27 days ago

      the latin isn't the problem, it's the people using it (as you can see from this thread, i'm well versed in latin)

    • boboblaw [he/him, they/them]
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      24 days ago

      This person probably can't decline the five declensions.

      The five declension? I'd prefer not to.

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    27 days ago

    Teaching logical fallacies to redditors was one of the worst mistakes. They think it is just the magic "win argument" words, and fail to understand that logical fallacies are supposed to be used to examine your own arguments, not as a "gotcha" against your opponent.

  • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]
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    27 days ago

    im surprised they didnt work a ‘causus belli’ in there. Reddit clowns are V V fond of that one.

    • mayo_cider [he/him]
      hexagon
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      27 days ago

      I was lucky and had to study two colonizer languages before going to university so i was set with linguistic studies in university