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| i_forget Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5199 days ago 35 posts - 38 votes Speaks: Greek*, English, Spanish | Message 49 of 70 13 April 2015 at 10:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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I can understand how my question can be annoying :) It would be hard to explain why one does
it when they genuinely like it. It would be hard to give a concrete reason. I genuinely enjoy Spanish and when people ask me this question about Spanish I just give a random reason to avoid the question. "I had a girlfriend". "I studied at college". Of course, bullshit. So if you tell me "to read books" I can not sympathize, I can only say "read a translation". I can also see that quite a few people have misinterpreted things I've said, even from my initial opening post. It would be nice if people stated reasons why NOT to study ancient/artificial languages before going on and saying why to do so. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 50 of 70 13 April 2015 at 11:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Heh but why should you need to defend your ways to spend the free time? You like Spanish,
awesome! And from those annoying questions, you surely understand that others just may have whatever reason to learn Latin or Ancient Egyptian or Classical Chinese and find it totally sufficient. So, why can't you sympathize? Do you as well have trouble sympathizing with people that can't give you enough reasons as to why they run a few km every day or why they learn to play guitar? "It would be nice if people stated..." what the hell? Obviously, most of us interpreted your post the same way: we gave you examples of our reasons why to learn and why not to learn Latin. Were you just looking for a group of people disliking the same things as you dislike, no reasons needed? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vell Newbie United States Joined 3795 days ago 17 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 51 of 70 13 April 2015 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I studied Latin for a few years. It was a waste of time, but a waste of time like pretty
much anything else I would have done in my free time. To answer your question, I think very few people actually study dead languages seriously, and the majority of those that do either study it for a specific academic reason or as a linguistic exercise because they see these languages as somehow being more pure or syntactically perfect or however they describe it. Asking why people study dead languages is like asking why people do field linguistics. You're talking about a very, very small group of people with a specific interest. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 52 of 70 14 April 2015 at 12:02am | IP Logged | ||
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You asked "why learn?" not "why not to learn?", or in a more appropriate way, "what are the downsides of learning a dead language?"
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| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5238 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 53 of 70 14 April 2015 at 12:12am | IP Logged | ||
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@i_forget :
There is no reason NOT to study something you are interested in. There is no reason TO study something you aren't interested in. I could give you a million and one reasons not to study a language, but if that is what you want to do, my million and one reasons are all mute points. The converse is also true. I don't understand why you need reasons NOT to study something you are clearly NOT interested in? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| basica Senior Member Australia Joined 3538 days ago 157 posts - 269 votes Studies: Serbian | Message 54 of 70 14 April 2015 at 12:47am | IP Logged | ||
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The purpose of this thread? To troll. How successfully? Very.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 55 of 70 14 April 2015 at 1:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Basica is correct. Reason to post in the troll thread: procrastination from
pathophysiology. How successfully? Quite. ;-) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 56 of 70 14 April 2015 at 11:14am | IP Logged | ||
The Vietnamese and Hungarian alphabets may use Latin characters, but their alphabets aren't the same as the English (or Latin) one as they definitely add/subtract characters. The only alphabet I know of that is exactly the same as English is Dutch (tremas and accents are not considered separate letters in Dutch). By contrast, Greek has two variants... Modern Greek and Ancient Greek. Edited by tarvos on 14 April 2015 at 11:15am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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