Re: Possible bug in Calendar

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
Harold Yarmouth wrote:
Dr J R Stockton wrote:
What experience do you have of anything outside the USA and possibly
Canada?

Who gives a ***? I stated a basic, plain-as-the-nose-on-your-face fact that no reasonable person would disagree with.

You don't think "Most high school curricula do not cover Latin" depends
on where in the world it is ?

Most English classes don't teach Latin. That is a basic, plain-as-the-nose-on-your-face fact that no reasonable person would disagree with.

You, Arne, have now demonstrated yourself conclusively to be "no reasonable person".

As such, I think I needn't fear anyone taking you seriously anymore. Especially not combined with your brutishness and your poor grammar. You're like a street thug, short on smarts or language skills but long on threats and general glowering nastiness. Except that a street thug gets taken somewhat seriously due to the threat of physical violence that he poses. You, on the other hand, are laughable. Especially since you actually seem to think that a thuggish attitude can somehow compensate for a lack of brains ON THE INTERNET. Hahaha! What a laugh!

"Gimme all yuor mony or I bash ya brayn zin" might work in a dark alley.

"Try read some X u idiot" and "Yore rong again you igornat morron!!1" do not provoke anything but laughter online.

If you intend to be taken seriously, you need to act less like a third-tier goon that doesn't even rate "henchman" from some bad mobster movie and more like a Harvard graduate with some skill in a complex and intelligence-demanding field, preferably Java programming given the group topic.

Part of that means acting with appropriate decorum, and in particular not being nasty and verbally violent with everyone that disagrees with you. Being able to disagree or debate something civilly is a vital skill than you need in order to be taken seriously.

Another is the ability to sound intelligent and professional when you communicate.

"Yore rong!!1" and "Try read more books!" and similar utterances indicate that on both scores you still have a lot of work to do as of yet.

> * Ergo, a normal secular high school has no reason to put it in
> core curricula,

I think it is called "culture".

Latin, "culture", in this day and age? You're joking.

"Culture" in academia these days tends to mean Shakespeare, Conrad, Twain, Milton, and the like -- not Latin.

"Culture" outside academia these days tends to mean keeping abreast of the latest juicy gossip about the contestants on The Amazing Race and the like -- also not Latin, except the odd time they have to find and decipher some clue in the Vatican, and then it's likely to be igpay atinlay rather than the real thing anyway.

Besides it is said to make learning other languages (those with roots
in Latin) a lot easier to learn.

That's like suggesting that you make a ten minute hike to work easier by training to run the Olympic marathon. Or (objava) write a fairly complex Java program by writing a full-blown AI that's smart enough to program the first program for you. Or interpreting dinosaur bones is so great a mental challenge you take up quantum physics instead so you can figure out how and make a time machine and just go back and watch them do their thing.

Where I come from then Latin was an option both in last year of
elementary/middle school and in high school (or the equivalents
of those).

An option. Not a core part of the curriculum for every student. Exactly as I contended. Thanks for supporting my point for me. I'm glad you've finally decided to come around to my point of view, and that you've finally seen reason.
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