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Rocketman:

--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 13 Oct 2008, 17:56 ---The reason we use ancient Greek and Latin words at all is because they're dead languages

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Uh, Greek is very much alive.  :-P

britMonster:
@Rocketman Not ancient Greek. =P

Surgoshan:
A few decades ago, Greece was rocked with a controversy; should they stop teaching their schools in a language no longer spoken?

The Greek spoken today is not the Greek spoken by Homer, and that's not the Greek used by American scholars.

Jepser:
Yeah, well, Old and Middle English are dead languages too then.
Just like how Australopithecus is extinct. But you could also just say it has changed and evolved, which is what species and languages do.

But yeah, academic Greek/Latin does make little sense from a Classical perspective.

Rocketman:

--- Quote from: britMonster on 13 Oct 2008, 20:29 ---@Rocketman Not ancient Greek. =P

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There's really not that much difference. Ancient Greek is a lot closer to what's spoken now than Middle English is to us. Especially in the simple words/parts of words like "hetero-", "homo-", "anthro-", "pedo-/paido-" and all the other truncations people spout off nowadays.

They have specific meanings, you assholes! *shakes fist in unfocused rage*

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