the west was actually dissolved when we started teaching the curriculum in the vernacular
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i guess global english is the next best thing but were not teaching milton
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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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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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easy to imagine that Inquiry began in 1968 if you can't read the classic and medieval texts, I guess
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I think maybe people abandoned the ends that Latin was serving :/
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