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>Reading old edition of book about the Middle Ages
>It has long-ass sections of untranslated Latin and French
Was education that great back then or editors were just lazy fucks?

>> No.19066491
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19066491

>He can't read Latin or even French.

>> No.19066514

>>19066486
You are just a dumb fuck.

>> No.19066549

>>19066486
they were meant to filter out people that weren't educated in the right schools. you can easily learn those languages if you wanted to nowadays though

>> No.19066551

>>19066486
The average Victorian slum dweller had more education than a high school graduate today.

>> No.19066851

>>19066551
Not sure about that but I notice they were at least much more eloquent.

>> No.19066872

>>19066851
Go through a drive thru and give them $10.25 for a $7.05 order

>> No.19066881

>>19066486
>Was education that great back then
if you were literate back then, then you were either in some kind of religious order, and spent most of your life in the scriptorium, were some kind of secular scribe, who wrote and translated for a living, or extremely wealthy. So yes, education was really great back then.

>> No.19066959

>>19066486
>It has long-ass sections of untranslated Latin
You can probably just google that, it is 100% a direct quote of something that has been translated hundreds of times
>French
Can you not understand anything in French? Come on, a large part of the words are literally identical

>> No.19067072

>>19066959
Of course I can decipher french, but as an Englishmen I make it an intentional point not to bother.

>> No.19067088

>>19066486
you talk like a nigger so in this case it's you being a retard

>> No.19067116

>>19066486
Yes, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, authors writing for academic audiences could certainly expect their readers to know both Latin and French. They might know a bit of Greek, German, or Italian, but Latin and French were pretty much standard for the Anglo elites for a long time.

>> No.19067117

>>19066881
Dude the edition is from the 50s lmao.

>> No.19067134

>>19066486
Then learn Latin. It's actually quite simple. And you will do something productive.
Imagine telling to your friend
>Yeah, I know Latin.
Sounds cool, right?
Go learn Latin.

>> No.19067158

>>19067116
huh

>> No.19068032

>>19066872
kek

>> No.19068527

>>19067072
>Englishmen I make it an intentional point not to bother.
KEK, yet another reason to hate the """UK"""
I will drink champagne when the q*een finally leaves this world

>> No.19068558

>>19066959
I refuse to learn French on principle, and I don’t appreciate authors trying to normalize that language.

>> No.19068570

>>19067134
>Imagine telling to your friend
>>Yeah, I know Latin.
>Sounds cool, right?
Pretty sure that this would be met with a fit of hysterical laughter

>> No.19068648

>>19066486
anyone who'd gone through a british public school up until the war could reasonably be assumed to be able to grope their way through latin

>> No.19068716

>>19066486
My dad learned in Russian, German and French in a state school and that was in the 70's in a communist country. Yes. Schools were just that good before.

>> No.19068761

>>19068716
And all three are dying out, what was the point?
>inb4 “noooo they’re not dying out!!!”
Russia’s population is falling off a cliff and China will annex most of the country sooner or later. Germany and France are in the EU, they will be English-speaking when the EU unifies into one country.

>> No.19068829

>>19068761
I can only wretch thinking about a world where we're stuck speaking only this horrid language. Have you read English poetry? If so, you know what I'm talking about. This language is U.G.L.Y. and nothing of beauty can ever come from it.

>> No.19068852

>>19068829
English is a good language for poetry, what are you on? Read the English Romantics. If you don’t like English learn Mandarin, because those are the only two languages which are going to be around in the future.

>> No.19069012

>>19068558
kys, *nglish would not exist without French, that's a fact.