On 29 July 2010 12:15, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> > You mean not everyone speaks enough latin to know the difference >> > between "exempli gratia" and "id est"? What is modern education >> > coming to. >> >> Well, here, in Russia, while English/German/French are more or less >> popular in the schools, Latin is being learned by specialists only >> (medicians, historians etc.) almost. And it's the way it is for about a >> century, if not more. > > I think historians and excavators are just about the only people that > should learn latin. It's also used most often by stupid people in an > attempt to sound cleverer than they are and dumbfound others needlessly > (lawyers and html editors for example). I can see an argument for cross > country dialect (maybe medicine) but there's certainly enough english > words for everything.
thanks to the history of anatomy, all of that subject is in Latin gluteus maximus, flexor digitorum superficialis, trapezius, cerebrum, corpus callosum, &c don't think you are going to get medics to change the nomenclature anytime soon mike
