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Your comment reminds me of my rhetoric professor, who was Greek, and who once expressed to us that memorizing the terms in our lesson should be easy, since they were literally just the words themselves.

Of course, it was all Greek to me.



Memorizing a large amount of Greek and Latin word roots was my superpower when I was studying for the SATs. I could decipher a large chunk of words even if I've never seen them before.


When I was in grade six, my teacher made us all learn about half a dozen greek or Latin roots each week. Incredibly useful, I still remember heaps of them decades later.


I read the entire Webster's unabridged dictionary one summer, with special attention to what the root words meant in the original ancient languages. I've only seen the word 'oedemic' one time but it was easy to figure out.


That's what studying Japanese is like for Chinese speakers.


As a Romance speaker that's almost a builtin superpower.


Given your username, seems to have stuck. ;o)




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