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The main reason to teach kids about Roman numerals isn't that they're useful in real life, but because they're so bloody awkward to actually calculate with that it might give the students some appreciation for the number system we actually use.
Like yeah, long multiplication is a ballache, but it could be so much worse.
The main reason to teach kids about Roman numerals isn't that they're useful in real life, but because they're so bloody awkward to actually calculate with that it might give the students some appreciation for the number system we actually use.
Like yeah, long multiplication is a ballache, but it could be so much worse.
May this month bring you peace, comfort, and everything you need. This is a very special month for me, as my first book comes out in a few weeks. If you wish to get The Book of Purrs, you can get it on most online book shops. Thank you all so much for being here. Have a wonderful October 🤍
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Guys I’m going to make a hot take
The whole “I wish I could be with a woman, but instead I’m stuck with my stupid, gross husband/boyfriend” sentiment I see repeated in bi circles is just the “progressive” queer version of the boomer “I hate my wife” jokes
if he’s stupid and gross you should leave him and if he isn’t you’re just being cruel for internet points and he should leave you
"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????
"the world isnt kind" skill issue. I am
surviving the current age of internet means saying no to subscriptions and premiums for basic features. you must endure the inconvenience of not being able to use every server emoji in discord. you must build the patience to find alternatives like NewPipe so you can listen to music on youtube while your phone screen sleeps. do Not give these corporations your limited disposable income. tiktok not letting me view videos on my phone without downloading the app? i will outlast tiktok and the execs will be remembered as dull,disgusting capitalists. listen to me, listen to me. if you do not know how to pirate shows from hulu, learn. if you can't pirate it, it is not worth the money to rent it. please i'm on my hands and knees. do not accept this form of internet.
"Chat what do I do the guy I hate just confessed their unyielding love to me"
Pride and prejudice screenshot redraw but not really, I drew them like how I felt like it ¯_(ツ)_/¯
by dante leoncini!
wait the more i look into it the cooler it is. he wrote the blender port himself and does these things as praxis against e-waste and consumerism. slay
I'm currently trying to speedrun my degree if I'm still alive next month AND somehow haven't dropped out it's a miracle
1. romeo and juliet on the balcony, julius kronberg 2. the meeting on the turret stairs, frederic william burton 3. la belle dame sans merci, john william waterhouse 4. god speed, edmund blair leighton 5. the end of the quest, francis bernard dicksee 6. la belle dame sans merci, francis bernard dicksee
Hence the invention of the Porch
Not to get carried away or anything but the word stoicism actually comes from the Greek word for painted porch or something? Because that was the name of the place they gathered to discuss their little philosophical ideas and stuff so yeah, does that mean the stoics really did understand how to achieve eudaimonia by standing in the doorway
Sometimes I wish that one day, when I'll be long gone, historians will happily stumble on some of my letters
I'm sorry, I don't want to come across as harsh, but this is honestly ignorant as fuck.
I'm not gonna claim to know everything about the importance of studying dead languages, but I think I can safely say that it would probably be a really bad thing if we lost these languages to time if we didn't have people studying them.
We can lose hundreds if not THOUSANDS of years of story-telling history if these languages end up forgotten.
I can't put it into clear words right now because I'm busy or go int depth because I only have a common sense understanding, but I just wanted to address this. So if anybody on Tumblr who's more qualified to speak on this kind of matter wants to explain, then please take the floor for me.
Many, many English words have Latin roots, so studying Latin can expand your English vocabulary to the point that you won't even need to check the dictionary meaning if you can recognize its Latin roots.
Additionally, you can make up new words as needed by mashing together Dead Words.
Lots of scientific jargon use Latin and Ancient Greek exactly because they're dead languages - the meaning of those words are set in stone. Studying those languages can help you understand and remember the extremely complex strings of words common in those topics.
Latin is the Mother of Romance languages. Just studying Latin can make it easier to adapt to the grammar rules of the other Romance languages, or even help you Frankenstein out a meaning of a simple paragraph.
All translation is a series of compromises. Even if Ye Olde Latin Text has been translated to English again and again and again, there WILL BE several points where the translator had to circumnavigate the translation to a phrase because the exact tone and concept is difficult to convey in English!!! (I am bilingual and this problem frustrates me to no end!!)
And that's approaching this problem in good faith. We have a history of people outright lying about their translation credentials, deliberately translating a text "wrong" for their own benefit, or adding flourishes that drastically change the tone of the translation. Reviewing that 18th-century English translation of some 13th-century Latin book instead of just thoughtlessly reprinting it is vital to having a clear understanding of that book and placing it in its proper context.
We have a LOT of untranslated archived material that have text written in dead languages, Latin included. Translating these provide us history.
And last but not the least:
Things do not have to be "useful" to have value.
also dead does not mean no longer in use, it means no longer CHANGING. No new words are being added to that dictionary. That’s all it means. Latin is only dead bc new words aren’t being added to its dictionary
As someone who studies medieval history, I have to say that not being fluent in Latin really sucks for me, dead languages 100% are useful and important to keep learning
https://twitter.com/profannieoakley/status/1357768408671027202
This thread is gold… make your own here: https://htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/
