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be me
leave Amsterdam
make a post about struggling with English in the Netherlands
want to learn Dutch so I struggle less
get told it's a waste of time, just go back to Amsterdam
:(

i'm surprised how many people are like "don't learn that it's pointless"

I mean.... I think learning Latin is cool but that feels a lot more pointless. Why can't we learn pointless things?

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37 sats \ 9 replies \ @ek 23 Sep

Yeah, I think Latin is where I draw the line, I don't see much use for it in my life haha

But I think it's used a lot in some sciences?

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You get to sound smart and erudite. In other words you get to act like @denlillaapan who loves to throw around the fact he went to Oxford (or Cambridge?).

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I love to throw that around?! Darn, I've failed... I usually uphold it as a failure, seen-the-crap-from-the-inside sort of achievement.

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Fair. Old elite institutions are corrupt decaying dinosaurs.

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Elite learning at Oxford survived everything: crusades, protestantism, secularism, big gov, world wars, medieval fights, empires rise and fall.

The hubris I need to honestly believe that it's permanently doomed is so insanely large

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survived everything: [goes on to list everything that didn't die yet, except maybe the rise of empires]
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World wars and crusades and religious war — I should have mentioned the civil war! — didn't die...?

The hubris I need to honestly believe that it's permanently doomed is so insanely large

i'm sure you're up to the task

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totally. Etymology/instantly deriving meaning of complicated words.

Also, I've been told, it's good practice for e.g., coding or other super stringent endeavors (follow procedure, details matter)

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Eat more gouda and stroopwafels. It might not help, but its worth a shot.

Nederlands is geen serieuze taal.

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