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Posted by: DWA 07/20/2008, 00:44:59  (About author)
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Angus:I do today feel everlastingly grateful to my Latin masters; we did not call them teachers, and frankly now that I think about it, I don't think they often, if ever, used the word "teach", so how they described in the masters' common room what they were doing I don't actually know. Although no one could in those days convince me Latin could ever be useful to me, somehow I found my Latin lessons fun, which empowered me painlessly to learn grammar and its value to both clarity and individuation and also empowered me to have a pretty accurate intuitive sense of what I might expect Latin-derived words in Western European languages to mean in English." In this TT context, I do feel some inferiority due to lack of schooling in Latin. I am also not motivated by whatever, envy, competitiveness, or greed, though, to rearrange my playful priorities. When chewing gum for the mind, television broadcasts, are in Latin, I may reconsider. What was most in your mind, animating your Latin pursuits at the time? Playfulness, self-esteem needs, or perhaps raw devilish workaholic ambition? |
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