School spends a long time “wasting” our time but learning things is a great way to learn how to interpret information and make actual informed decisions

    • mech@feddit.org
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      When I was in the US as an exchange student and didn’t know the English word for something, I just used the Latin one.
      It always worked, but people thought it’s funny that I’m not fluent in English and still somehow talked like a professor.

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        The funny thing is you can do it in Latin, French, or even German to some extent. There’s usually a word close enough that someone with a decent English vocabulary will be able to figure it out.

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        I do that in spanish. Lots of spanish words are real fucking close to latin word (wonder why¿ /s) and if you can think of the latin word it’ll either prompt you to remember the spanish or you’ll get a laugh out of people when you use the latin one.