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Do you know anything that you don't know?

(Hint: it's a trick question.)

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Posted - September 21, 2016

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  • 17614

    I know that I don't know Latin.

      September 22, 2016 10:47 AM MDT
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  • 1002

    I know all the things I don't know but, absent the additional knowing of what I don't know, the list of what I do know is much shorter than the list of what I don't know. 

      September 22, 2016 11:17 AM MDT
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  • I simply do not know.
      September 22, 2016 11:19 AM MDT
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  • 53524
    With all the Latin that exists in the English language, I wonder if you know more of it than you think you do.

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      September 22, 2016 8:27 PM MDT
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  • 53524
    That's good to know.

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      September 22, 2016 8:28 PM MDT
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  • 53524
    No?
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      September 22, 2016 8:29 PM MDT
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  • 17614

    I know English.  I do not know Latin.  I probably know more of it than the average English speaker by virtue of my education and profession...........Latin phrases are common in legal dialogue and documents and opinions; many of our legal doctrines are stated in Latin.  Judges really like to use them.  Knowing the root of English words just isn't knowing the language though.   I tried once to learn a second language and it is the only real failure I've ever had as far as not learning something.  I didn't really  want to learn Portuguese but the family business was set to have a partnership (import/export) with Brazil. This was back in the 70s.  I was very young, working and going to college in the evenings at the time.  I had no interest in this Brazil connection thing.  Anyway, in the end they decided to postpone that endeavor and it  never happened.  So, I still laugh at those who kept trying to learn the language.  My husband and I learned pretty much zero.  My FIL actually learned it well enough to communicate.  My BIL I'm not sure about.   

      September 23, 2016 12:41 AM MDT
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  • No is correct. 

      September 23, 2016 2:10 AM MDT
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  • 53524
    Know?
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      September 23, 2016 6:02 AM MDT
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  • 22891

    no cause you dont know it

      September 24, 2016 7:56 PM MDT
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  • 53524
    I'm sorry, I didn't mean to infer that you know the Latin language itself, I merely meant that by knowing English, which includes many words with Latin bases or includes Latin phrases/phraseology, you therefore know a little bit of Latin. That goes for French, German, Spanish, Italian, etc.; languages that supply numerous loan words and roots of words to the English language.

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      September 25, 2016 6:11 AM MDT
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