Benefits of Latin

[Akita Suggagaki]

Obvious and obviate.

Two words that sound very much alike. But one is used to mean plainly evident or often encountered and the other used to mean in the way or against

Ob. And via.
obvious | Origin and meaning of obvious by Online Etymology Dictionary

obviate | Origin and meaning of obviate by Online Etymology Dictionary

 

[thecolorsblend]

Never knew that, I was oblivious

 

[Aussie Pete]

Obvious and obviate.

Two words that sound very much alike. But one is used to mean plainly evident or often encountered and the other used to mean in the way or against

Ob. And via.
obvious | Origin and meaning of obvious by Online Etymology Dictionary

obviate | Origin and meaning of obviate by Online Etymology Dictionary

I studied Latin for a year. "Latin is a language, as dead as dead can be. It killed the ancient Romans and now it's killing me".
It's fairly obvious from reading news reports and internet articles that few care about correct English any more. "Grammar" is the little old lady you visit in the nursing home. Even the spill chucker can't rescue the English language from the pit into which it has been thrown. Journalists should know better. I read this a few months ago: "They were running away from a home evasion" and this gem, "The donkey was completely emerged". It was actually under water, submerged. Stop the world, I want to get off!

 

[Tra Phull]

Obviously, obfuscation sets in at times.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Never knew that, I was oblivious

That's a good one also.
oblivio "forgetfulness, a being forgotten"

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Obviously, obfuscation sets in at times.

from ob "in front of, before" (see ob-) + fuscare "to make dark," from fuscus "dark" (see dusk).

 

[Tra Phull]

Oblivio, obliviare, obliviavi, obliviatus
Fake pig Latin for obliviate

 

[thecolorsblend]

I studied Latin for a year. "Latin is a language, as dead as dead can be. It killed the ancient Romans and now it's killing me".
It's fairly obvious from reading news reports and internet articles that few care about correct English any more. "Grammar" is the little old lady you visit in the nursing home. Even the spill chucker can't rescue the English language from the pit into which it has been thrown. Journalists should know better. I read this a few months ago: "They were running away from a home evasion" and this gem, "The donkey was completely emerged". It was actually under water, submerged. Stop the world, I want to get off!

"I cannot underemphasize..."
"Be more pacific..."
"Penultimate" as "ultimate".
"Myth" and "mythology" used as synonyms.

The list goes on.

 

[Tra Phull]

Irregardless, I agree with thecolorsblend.

 

[Tanj]

If only entomology was just as dead as Latin, so we could stick a pin in this kind of thread. Then we wouldn't have people claiming the moral grammar ground because some word in current usage had a bit that meant something else 2000 years ago in another language.

 

[returntosender]

Obvious and obviate.

Two words that sound very much alike. But one is used to mean plainly evident or often encountered and the other used to mean in the way or against

Ob. And via.
obvious | Origin and meaning of obvious by Online Etymology Dictionary

obviate | Origin and meaning of obviate by Online Etymology Dictionary

What an advantage to know Latin. You are blessed and I am envious and know I am not supposed to be that.

 

[Aussie Pete]

"I cannot underemphasize..."
"Be more pacific..."
"Penultimate" as "ultimate".
"Myth" and "mythology" used as synonyms.

The list goes on.

There was a book many years ago, "The English and how she is Spoke". I suspect that Australia's English teachers use it as their style guide. "Fair" instead of "fare", "phase" instead of "faze" etc. etc.

 

[Aussie Pete]

If only entomology was just as dead as Latin, so we could stick a pin in this kind of thread. Then we wouldn't have people claiming the moral grammar ground because some word in current usage had a bit that meant something else 2000 years ago in another language.

If only English was taught correctly. We would be able to have intelligent conversations without having to second guess what the speaker meant.

 

[thecolorsblend]

There was a book many years ago, "The English and how she is Spoke". I suspect that Australia's English teachers use it as their style guide. "Fair" instead of "fare", "phase" instead of "faze" etc. etc.

I'm a familiar with the arguments that all languages evolve and evolution is observable in the history of the English language.

And yet, news articles published in English from just 20 or 25 years ago seem archaic in ways that I don't think should be appropriate. Idk about you Australians but I'm starting to become more receptive to arguments that the British and the Americans don't really speak the same language anymore. I shudder to think how things will be a century from now (if we survive 2020, that is).

 

[Aussie Pete]

Irregardless, I agree with thecolorsblend.

It's a truffling matter of no unimportance

I'm a familiar with the arguments that all languages evolve and evolution is observable in the history of the English language.

And yet, news articles published in English from just 20 or 25 years ago seem archaic in ways that I don't think should be appropriate. Idk about you Australians but I'm starting to become more receptive to arguments that the British and the Americans don't really speak the same language anymore. I shudder to think how things will be a century from now (if we survive 2020, that is).

Many people are semi-literate. If evolution is true (which I do not accept), it's gone into reverse. Many people communicate in grunts, teens especially. Emojis are just cartoon hieroglyphics. Talk like an Egyptian, anyone?

 

[Tanj]

If only English was taught correctly. We would be able to have intelligent conversations without having to second guess what the speaker meant.

Well that's just not true Pete, as anyone even remotely familiar with the history of the language would know.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

If only entomology was just as dead as Latin, so we could stick a pin in this kind of thread. Then we wouldn't have people claiming the moral grammar ground because some word in current usage had a bit that meant something else 2000 years ago in another language.

It really has nothing to do with "grammar ground". I thought it was strange that two words so closely related would have almost opposite meanings.

 

[eleos1954]

I studied Latin for a year. "Latin is a language, as dead as dead can be. It killed the ancient Romans and now it's killing me".
It's fairly obvious from reading news reports and internet articles that few care about correct English any more. "Grammar" is the little old lady you visit in the nursing home. Even the spill chucker can't rescue the English language from the pit into which it has been thrown. Journalists should know better. I read this a few months ago: "They were running away from a home evasion" and this gem, "The donkey was completely emerged". It was actually under water, submerged. Stop the world, I want to get off!

We live in a world of acronyms for the most part ;o)

 

[Aussie Pete]

We live in a world of acronyms for the most part ;o)

Yeah, we are swamped with TLA's.

 

[eleos1954]

Yeah, we are swamped with TLA's.

and often TMI .... LOL

yep there they are TLA oh well ... makes texts shorter ;o)