Math question 7, what are the sub-units of pounds? Is it something like pence?
Shillings. there were 20 in a pound, and 12 pence in a shilling, for 240 pence/pound. the d signifies pennies.
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#12The link isn't loading for me, so here's HN's discussion on a Harvard entrance exam from 1869: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3312240
Yeah, I thought I remembered seeing this before.
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#13I learned Latin in high school, and I learned from an old moving picture and from some old CEO who was one of the few who went to college in his time where he picked to major in Latin and math, that Latin had a far more mainstream role in academia, such that it could propel one to a CEO position of a really big company and that it could be used as one of the basis of a college entrance exam.
Latin gave me the ability to form a third brain and be able to dissect the English language and multiple other languages quite mathematically and systematically. I think it might be the key to unlocking the comprehension part of artificial intelligence.
I also think that because Latin has become so distant now from mainstream academia has in an essence made our language too simple and rough, lacking poetry and love, and even intelligence. The dialogues from old movies seem alien to us.
If we were to reintroduce Latin, I think society's language skills would improve and thereby communication would improve.
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#14Math question 7, what are the sub-units of pounds? Is it something like pence?
Just another example of things we have mercifully forgotten. See Isaac Asimov's "Forget It" essay http://www.kkbooks.net/ScienceFiction/Asimov37/27283.html (on a similarly antiquated math textbook).
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#15I learned Latin in high school, and I learned from an old moving picture and from some old CEO who was one of the few who went to college in his time where he picked to major in Latin and math, that Latin had a far more mainstream role in academia, such that it could propel one to a CEO position of a really big company and that it could be used as one of the basis of a college entrance exam. Latin gave me the ability…
Auxilium! Non possum surgere et decidi. - Last words of Beowulf :)
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#16I learned Latin in high school, and I learned from an old moving picture and from some old CEO who was one of the few who went to college in his time where he picked to major in Latin and math, that Latin had a far more mainstream role in academia, such that it could propel one to a CEO position of a really big company and that it could be used as one of the basis of a college entrance exam. Latin gave me the ability…
Latin gave you a third brain and it will be the key to artificial intelligence?
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#17I learned Latin in high school, and I learned from an old moving picture and from some old CEO who was one of the few who went to college in his time where he picked to major in Latin and math, that Latin had a far more mainstream role in academia, such that it could propel one to a CEO position of a really big company and that it could be used as one of the basis of a college entrance exam. Latin gave me the ability…
I took an intro Latin course in university, and while I didn't get as much out of it as you did, it did give me a great appreciation for understanding the roots of words, and why they mean what they mean.
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#18I learned Latin in high school, and I learned from an old moving picture and from some old CEO who was one of the few who went to college in his time where he picked to major in Latin and math, that Latin had a far more mainstream role in academia, such that it could propel one to a CEO position of a really big company and that it could be used as one of the basis of a college entrance exam. Latin gave me the ability…
That's just the classic false attachment of Latin constructs to English usage. French, Italian etc. obviously derive from Latin while the Germanic languages do not, much to the disgrace of the self professed enlightened classes for the last several hundred years.
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#19I learned Latin in high school, and I learned from an old moving picture and from some old CEO who was one of the few who went to college in his time where he picked to major in Latin and math, that Latin had a far more mainstream role in academia, such that it could propel one to a CEO position of a really big company and that it could be used as one of the basis of a college entrance exam. Latin gave me the ability…
Most of the application of Latinate concepts (those systems you mention) to English grammar are pretty faulty. It's what led us down the path to people complaining about split infinitives, and all that nonsense up with which I refuse to put. It leads to situations that are akin to someone trying really hard to write a Java program in Ruby.
Which isn't to say that learning Latin doesn't improve grammar skills, or push you toward thinking more analytically about language. My argument, though, would be that learning any second language will give you pretty much the same benefit.
5 on AP Latin, here.
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#20I learned Latin in high school, and I learned from an old moving picture and from some old CEO who was one of the few who went to college in his time where he picked to major in Latin and math, that Latin had a far more mainstream role in academia, such that it could propel one to a CEO position of a really big company and that it could be used as one of the basis of a college entrance exam. Latin gave me the ability…
Latin gave you a third brain and it will be the key to artificial intelligence?
> Latin (...) will be the key to artificial intelligence?
Deus ex machina. We knew that for hundreds of years. ;).