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I had a business professor who would ask the class for the origins of various words. I would respond with the Greek word and meaning. Every single time his re
by Zamicol 7y ago
I had a business professor who would ask the class for the origins of various words. I would respond with the Greek word and meaning.
Every single time his response was "No, it's Latin". He never contented that the meaning was wrong, but he never realized that his "Latin" word was first found in Greek.
It made me aware of this weird "Latin vs Greek" cultural thing, which I'm assuming for Americans is religious in origin.
I personally find Greek beautiful and useful.
- kragen 7y agoThere are many cognates in Latin and Greek, but usually when the word is exactly the same, it's because the Romans copied the word from Greek. Nicola Gardini isn't American. He's Italian.