the west was actually dissolved when we started teaching the curriculum in the vernacular
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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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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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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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here's what I want to know: 1) in 1400 what percent of population spoke the lingua franca (latin) and could thus be part of this community? 2) in 2019 what percent of population spoke the lingua franca (Enlgish) and could thus be part of this community? I suspect larger now
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