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comment by darlinareyousleepy
darlinareyousleepy  ·  2144 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 20, 2019

Latin is a simple, but complex language.

I grew up learning ancient latin, so it helps with using those pretty 5 digit words that people who understand other languages tend to listen to. Plus, cyrillic is similar to both ancient latin and ancient greek. Basically, if I want something simple that won't take too much time and still be enriching, I would go to ancient latin over ancient greek.





johnnyFive  ·  2144 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ok, but that doesn't answer why reading Meditations translated into Latin is better than reading it translated into English.