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Which language would you study, Latin or Greek?
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Well it really all depends on if you would prefer words that end in -ii when made plural, or not.
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Latin because the old autistic grognard nerd that I am thinks it would be cool if everything I said sounded like I was casting a spell.
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Gayreek, so I can live in Δεδεαγάτς or Θεσσαλονίκη. Not Κ*βάλα, it is a worthles shithole.
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Latin is slightly easier due to not having to learn another alphabet and slightly simpler grammar, but if you have studied an inflected Indo-European language before, you should not find either terribly difficult. It was a widely-held opinion in Westrrn European education in the past that students should study Latin first, then Greek, but that was mostly due to the popularity of Latin in the West.
It really depends on what you want to read. Greek opens up the Septuagint and New Testament, the majority of the church fathers, classical philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, and classic playwrights like Aristophanes and Sophocles. Latin lets you read the Vulgate, Roman politicians, philosophers, playwrights (worse on average than Greek drama in my humble opinion), and poets, and medieval Latin works, which dwarf the entire Greek corpus by orders of magnitude. Latin was used for record-keeping, all Church business, and scholarly works until the 19th century, and the conservative nature of using a dead language with a fixed standard means you can read most later works without much difficulty.
It really depends on what you want to read. Greek opens up the Septuagint and New Testament, the majority of the church fathers, classical philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, and classic playwrights like Aristophanes and Sophocles. Latin lets you read the Vulgate, Roman politicians, philosophers, playwrights (worse on average than Greek drama in my humble opinion), and poets, and medieval Latin works, which dwarf the entire Greek corpus by orders of magnitude. Latin was used for record-keeping, all Church business, and scholarly works until the 19th century, and the conservative nature of using a dead language with a fixed standard means you can read most later works without much difficulty.
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Latin is the root of languages like Italian and Spanish, so learning Latin makes those easier to understand.
Sorta like if a buncha languages of the future evolved from English, knowing English could help out with it.
Sorta like if a buncha languages of the future evolved from English, knowing English could help out with it.
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It's pretty crazy that back in the day, if you knew just latin and greek, you could walk all over the known world (id est the mediterranean) and you could talk with and understand almost anyone. Tbh. I think that, if you knew those two languages, you could still conversate, on some level, with most of the people there, though I only have anecdotal evidence.
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Repetitio mātris sapientiae est.
(no idea if I got this correctly, should mean "Repetition is the mother of knowledge")
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