factcheck: true Germans were justly proud of speaking Greek as well as other educated Europeans spoke Latinhttps://twitter.com/bronzeagemantis/status/1046628265455226881 …
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Loose conjecture: Britain’s strictly linguistic talent was increasingly absorbed by the possibilities of Sanskrit
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The bullying of the Church of England by a 17th c baptist-papist alliance left a shell in the 18th c, and so a diminished audience for Greek/Latin works
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(remember, success of German Gymnasium model *impossible* w/o careers in church for large minority of graduates)
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Nietzsche, Hölderlin both started out destined for the ministry - no way that would have led to Greek fluency in teens in UK (tho c. 1600 it could have - it did for Hobbes)
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