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Well, my comment was more eluding to the fact that, until very recently, many Americans learned Latin as part of their primary school education. It was requisi
by mywittyname 7y ago
Well, my comment was more eluding to the fact that, until very recently, many Americans learned Latin as part of their primary school education. It was requisite knowledge for university.
- FabHK 7y ago(Secondary school, presumably)
- gamblor956 7y agoThis has not been true in America since at least before WWII and the GI Bill. Latin was never a part of the standard primary school curriculum.
- mywittyname 7y agoI was talking specifically about pre-WWII. My depression-era grand-parents learned it in school.
- gamblor956 7y ago70+ years ago is not "very recent" when talking about schooling. Public schooling has only been widely available in the US for less than 150 years and only widely mandated for children in the last 100.
- Digit-Al 7y agoI think you mean "alluding". Eluding means avoiding.