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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(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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and the Victorian gentleman rector only learned classical languages if he felt like it iirc, their energy went every which way
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Broke: Bullying papists Woke: Bullying henricopapists
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