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Vulcan said:
Didn't anyone tell you Vulcan's Latin name is really Vulcanus, with Vulcan being the English name? ;)
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Yeah, but YOUR name is VUlcan, so why would he/she call you Vulcanus? Nobody would calls me Edouard just because they're speaking in French to me.

Wikipedia > Linguists and other Latin professors?

That doesn't sound quite right.
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Wikipedia = data collected by linguists. Latin professors are obviously biased and b/s to make their field sound more interesting to students.
 
Sekhu said:
Yeah, but YOUR name is VUlcan, so why would he/she call you Vulcanus? Nobody would calls me Edouard just because they're speaking in French to me.
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How would you know that? I've had a friend name William who recently visited MExico, and they called him Guillermo.


Wikipedia = data collected by linguists. Latin professors are obviously biased and b/s to make their field sound more interesting to students.
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Most Wikipedia sites are not reliable souces. Want to know why? Pepple can edit them just how they please. That article even tells you: "This article does not cite its references or sources for all we know, they could've made it up.

Latin professors biased? Please. You haven't been in a Latin class, then.
 
Nope, I haven't. But if you'd actually read the article, the linguists that conducted the research for the statistics are indeed cited. It's just not compulsory to do it.
 
Sekhu said:
Nope, I haven't. But if you'd actually read the article, the linguists that conducted the research for the statistics are indeed cited. It's just not compulsory to do it.
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It's still the fact that anyone could edit it. What if someday you see it said that 80% of the language actually comes from Egypt? Would you believe it then?
 
Vulcan said:
It's still the fact that anyone could edit it. What if someday you see it said that 80% of the language actually comes from Egypt? Would you believe it then?
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The only problem with that is the amount of legitmate info posters far outweighs the number of deviants, and they can easily track which members made which edits, so they are eliminated rather quickly.
 
Sekhu said:
The only problem with that is the amount of legitmate info posters far outweighs the number of deviants, and they can easily track which members made which edits, so they are eliminated rather quickly.
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One can edit a Wikipedia page without being registered. Of course their IP address is tracked, but blocking an IP address isn't enough.
 
Okay, so 99% of what's on Wikipedia is wrong. And your uncited claims that 90% of English is direct Latin is correct. You win.
 
I don't think we said it was 90%. I said it was 60%.

I recently read an article about the accuracy of Wikipedia, and it seems that their science articles are more accurate than the other articles, including language. It's also been advised that Wikipedia is something that you shouldn't use primarily for research; you can use it as something to start with, but not as your only resource.
 
Sekhu said:
Okay, so 99% of what's on Wikipedia is wrong. And your uncited claims that 90% of English is direct Latin is correct. You win.
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Well... 90% of english is derived from latin... for example... the word pedal or pedestrian comes from the latin word for foot, ped, and the word agriculture comes the latin word for field, ager
 
SorceressEdea7 said:

Well... 90% of english is derived from latin... for example... the word pedal or pedestrian comes from the latin word for foot, ped, and the word agriculture comes the latin word for field, ager
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Yeah, you're totally right. Those two words you just said are 90% of the language.
 
Your example doesn't prove your point at all, though, because you would have to present a proportion of words that are 90% Latin and 10% other. There's no other way your example could prove what you were saying.

If you think 90% of English is derived from Latin, then the education system has severely failed you as a thinking human being.
 
Get me a ten letter English word with nine Latin letters and one English one, then I'll believe you.
 
Conversely

From the Latin, "conversus". All the letters except "y" are used primarily in Latin. You could say that "y" was used later, but only in conjunction with Greek based words.

Adjunctive

From the prefix "ad" with the Latin verb, iungo, iungere, iunxi, iunctum. As you can see, all the letters except "j" are Latin letters.
 
Whoa whoa whoa, let's not bring attitude into this. What's with the personal attack? :(

I was only saying that the educational system let this person down. It's a shame, isn't it?
 
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