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0 pointsmonkeywork2y ago0 comments

curious - what tools were deprived to a whole generation?

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jitl2y ago

Shouting in the workplace and three martini lunches?

You're joking, but you're not wrong.

The lack of emotional (and explicitly confrontational) experiences in modern society are underdeveloping skills to deal with them.

Consequently, you get childish spats over what should be a technical disagreement, because people aren't comfortable saying "I think you're wrong, but I respect your opinion. Here are the reasons I think you're wrong..."

As the quip goes, anonymity and the lack of physical presence turns everyone into an asshole on the internet -- and then we raised most of the world on the internet.

Glawen2y ago

It's true that people are less and less ok being confrontational. I don't mind having a spat, but it is becoming increasingly rarer

notmypenguin2y ago

Critical thinking skills independently from the subjects they may arise from. It’s not a trendy topic of argument, but I will also propose that modern English speakers have no notion of their own language without a prerequisite in Latin, or you get folks like the person trying to tell me my subscription date started at some arbitrary date unrelated to the specific date I signed under.

TRiG_Ireland2y ago

> I will also propose that modern English speakers have no notion of their own language without a prerequisite in Latin.

1. English is a Germanic language, not a Romance one.

2. Even for speakers of Romance languages, knowledge of the ancestor language doesn't really make a difference. Does it help a modern English speaker to know that silly once meant "blessed by God"?

3. The notion that Latin is somehow more logical than English is a pervasive one, but it has absolutely no evidentiary underpinning. It's pure classist bullshit.

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