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Shocking that comment by someone quoting Seneca, in Latin, in their profile would be pretentious!
by pc86 5y ago
Shocking that comment by someone quoting Seneca, in Latin, in their profile would be pretentious!
- mdp2021 5y agoIt is normal for many. Learnt at school, met quite often during their studies. It is an implicit part and a normal experience of many curricula of studies: it was of common use until only a few centuries ago. So, no exceptional display: normal like French for old diplomacy and international exchange in general in a not so distant past.
- achillesheels 5y agoWhat can I say, I try to rise above the illiterate mass shrug.
- mdp2021 5y agoAnd also: yes, some assume that you may have some familiarity with Latin - irregardless of expertise, an attitude that makes you interested and embracing when you meet it (instead of recoiling), because you speak English. You use the language, so it is normal to think you open to what makes its gears. Especially in a forum ("intellectual curiosity" intended) where many are engineers, one will suppose imbecility ("lack of proficiency in the use of the stick": again Latin, of course, as it builds a good share of the language) a countervalue. This place is called 'Hacker's news': you look inside things and not your own language, hacker?!