Question for classically-educated forum members

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I just wonder why so many British pronounce so many words wrong.

 

[EHocking]

I think they only pronounce one word wrong. “Wrong”

Unless they pronounce it incorrectly. . .

 

[junkshop]

I just wonder why so many British pronounce so many words wrong.

 

[arthwollipot]

I know this is a necro thread and I'm responding to a post that's over 20 years old, but I do want to address this:

One of my favorite sayings was "ah the benefits of a classical education" until I found out the bad guy says it in Die Hard.

How many times at work are you asked to translate Latin or ancient Greek? Sometimes I think the time I spent in school was wasted.

I learned Latin at school and have never once regretted it. I learned more about English in Latin than I ever did in English.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I know this is a necro thread and I'm responding to a post that's over 20 years old, but I do want to address this:


I learned Latin at school and have never once regretted it. I learned more about English in Latin than I ever did in English.

I learned the Latin subdialect, Porcine.

 

[novaphile]

I know this is a necro thread and I'm responding to a post that's over 20 years old, but I do want to address this:


I learned Latin at school and have never once regretted it. I learned more about English in Latin than I ever did in English.

Similar experience for me, but when studying German.

Language classes in High School demonstrated how poor the language classes were in primary school.

But that was true for many subjects.

Students, in High School, who couldn't read a clock.

Learning algebra, the class had to go backwards and teach 'fractions' because the methods, and explanations taught in primary school were less than useless.

That one was particularly poignant for me, because I'd been punished in primary school, for not applying the dumb method, and instead using a method that worked. (I have no idea how I came across the working method, perhaps from one of my older brother's text books, or his help, or some other source.)

Reading for many students was painfully bad, so English literature classes were practically write-offs.

To this day, I wonder what on Earth was going on in primary school at the time.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I used to have to correct the teachers who handled the high school history classes. For some reason they had a hard time seeing my hand in the air. I just wanted to give Takao Yoshikawa his due.