You know, this was part of my original motivation when setting this place upQuasus dixit:Learning Latin helps one to meet a lot of intelligent people all over the world!:
That seems to me to be the most important reason to learn Latin rather than some other language.MrKennedy dixit:Reading the classics in their original language. ...
I doubt if it’s extremely beneficial. Scientific Latin is not a tongue but rather a nomenclature system based on Latin and Greek roots (sometimes ‘perverse’ at that: cf. rectum in Latin and in anatomy). In particular, physicians and Co. don’t need any grammar above the genetive case.Portia dixit:if one is going into medicine, botany, or practically any science career, Latin is extremely beneficial because medicines, plants, animals, etc. have Latin names.
I understand that scientific Latin is a nomenclature system rather than a language. In spite of my misuse of the Latin language, I'm not a complete idiot. I said Latin is extremely beneficial, not taking ten years of Latin is extremely beneficial. I would think that taking just a year or two of Latin would be quite beneficial for a student planning on going into the science field as you get practice in pronounciation, spelling, singular vs. plural forms, numbers, etc.Quasus dixit:I doubt if it’s extremely beneficial. Scientific Latin is not a tongue but rather a nomenclature system based on Latin and Greek roots (sometimes ‘perverse’ at that: cf. rectum in Latin and in anatomy). In particular, physicians and Co. don’t need any grammar above the genetive case.
A knowledge of Latin wasn't enough to save me in AnatomyQuasus dixit:(sometimes ‘perverse’ at that: cf. rectum in Latin and in anatomy). In particular, physicians and Co. don’t need any grammar above the genetive case.
Well, I must have said not what I’d intended to.Cinefactus dixit:rectum is hardly perverse. It describes the straight section of the bowel...