Just one musing for today. I think Ancient Greek is a lot like rugby in the sense that a lot of people don't understand WHY IN THE HECK someone would subject herself to hours upon hours of flipping through a glossary, learning minute linguistic differences between so many words that look and sound similar, and overall just rescinding all rights to a social life.
It's like how in rugby you just keep coming back to get the crud kicked out of you. And the strength with which you tackle (forgive the pun) the other aspects of your life comes to define you as a person. I can be defined by the fact that though it is extremely difficult and of no practical use, I study Ancient Greek. I am a Classical academic. A Renaissance man.
And I'm in good company if you think about it.
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