
Saturday Serendipity
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
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What's the Word for Friend in Greek?
i always thought the o e d was about 200 thousand wordsd maybe that's a huge vocabulary. And most people that are non native speakers, they can get by with a thousand words. So latin used to be a very important component of instruction. When i was teaching at calstate, even though i only undergraduates, many from what we would call marginalized people, from dire circumstances,. i really taught latin composition. To some students that were advanced greek compositions. We could read it easily, but to write it. That really developed a bigger vocabulary and let you understand how the greek mind works.
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