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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 13 Sep 2019

      the west was actually dissolved when we started teaching the curriculum in the vernacular

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 13 Sep 2019

      i guess global english is the next best thing but were not teaching milton

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 13 Sep 2019

      I mean this seriously Was listening to Durant last night at 3am while leveling a priest because insomnia and he covered the medieval history of translations and universities and language Incredibly impressive how really every scholar in Europe just communicated in Latin

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 13 Sep 2019

      To hear him tell it, the educated in Europe were genuinely integrated in a period of massive cultural fragmentation The abandonment of a common (and arcane) scholarly tongue seems like a real loss for the learned And also cuts us off from our roots

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 13 Sep 2019

          easy to imagine that Inquiry began in 1968 if you can't read the classic and medieval texts, I guess

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 13 Sep 2019

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          this is not a new or cannabis-engendered opinion, see this thread about the importance of professorial attirehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/884963845826953216?s=19 …

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          Replying to @eigenrobot @elissawashuta
          Education is a ritual, and rituals call for costumes and ceremony.
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        4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 13 Sep 2019

          I think about this post a lot Learning to communicate in Latin may have had a second purpose, much like learning to work with data in R or python It's a signal of competence; and learning to do it well requires you to learn about many ideas on the way https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2013/01/05/the-statistics-software-signal/ …

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        5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 13 Sep 2019

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          One reason STEM fields are perhaps doing relatively well is that they DO demand students learn a living, partially-universal scholarly language Now yes this language has technical value too but that isnt its sole virtue Make of that what you willhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1172585521849090049?s=19 …

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          Replying to @MorlockP
          The specific fields you name communicate primarily in an arcane and technical language :) How does this sound replacing the fieldw with cultural anthropology or sociology or (sob) history?
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        1. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky 13 Sep 2019
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          much bigger issue is that academia is orders of magnitude larger and, necessarily, fragmented into many subfields

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 13 Sep 2019
          Replying to @LucioMM1

          This was also discussed!

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        2. Stuart de Stael‏ @StuartdeStael 13 Sep 2019
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          A good thing about not using Latin anymore is it lowers the barrier to entry for participation in intellectual life. I’ve read that Leonardo had a hard time learning about some things that interested him because he never learned Latin.

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        3. Stuart de Stael‏ @StuartdeStael 13 Sep 2019
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          I guess since you feel that Latin is a signal of competence, you might feel that this is a mixed blessing. But I think the good of lowering the barriers far outweighs the bad.

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        2. Pumpkin-Spice Adjunction‏ @interpretantion 13 Sep 2019
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          Sometimes wonder if 20th century mathematics is becoming the new Latin. I've had many reasons for teaching myself more math but at the heart of it seems to be some need to maintain some standard of coherence. Like the need to debate in Latin maybe put a check on bullshit

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 13 Sep 2019
          Replying to @interpretantion

          I think this is roughly correct Hmm Interesting A world built on Latin vs a world built on Math

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