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Re:In Defense of Latin by Koshkin on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @07:43PM (#21580045)
By the same objective measure by which a statue of Venus is more beautiful than a cube made of concrete (despite of the latter possessing more symmetry). The measure could be: the number of people saying so; the shape of the distribution of color in a brain scan of an observer, etc.
Re:In Defense of Latin by umanwizard on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:00AM (#21584991)
A statue of Venus took creativity and skill to create that a cube of concrete didn’t. There’s no meaningfully similar statement you could make about Latin vs. English.