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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?
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?).
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.
Fair. Old elite institutions are corrupt decaying dinosaurs.
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
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
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)
Eat more gouda and stroopwafels. It might not help, but its worth a shot.
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