{"id":165,"date":"2011-08-02T14:08:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T14:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2013-11-23T14:09:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T14:09:07","slug":"dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justynaniebieszczanska.com\/en\/dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What for Latin, Greek or any ancient language in such a world when nobody uses them for communication? What for to learn anything when you cannot use it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can only believe that most of us realize how important these languages are to understand the history, the\u00a0 culture and the tradition of our civilization, not mentioning\u00a0 how useful they are regarding logic and mind exercise. Anyway, I mean something more. For ancient Greek philosophy \u2018getting to know\u2019 was the most important life rule. And the book by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giorgio_Colli\">Giorgio Colli<\/a>\u00a0explains it\u00a0 very well. Only this way through learning and experiencing you can get a sense of your life and whatever you have or achieved is important, but it is only a step to go ahead to knowing \u00a0yourself. And in this sense knowing Latin, Greek, studying \u2018dead\u2019 languages let us climb the higher level of \u2018to be\u2019, because here is a pure knowledge and here is everything written about human life and emotion. \u00a0From a practical point of view, such knowledge gives you a completely different perspective what is essential in life and it also offers a great comfort of distance to this super speed and consuming world.<\/p>\n<p>I must admit that for me as a person who spent several years dealing with Greek and Latin, it is hard to stand the phrase \u2018 dead languages\u2019. To my mind, we are dead ourselves if we only focus on how to develope our practical skills to have more. Such getting more and more means losing , because whatever you really posses, you always have got with yourself (<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.answers.com\/Q\/What_does_%27Omnia_mea_mecum_porto%27_mean_in_English\">omnia mea mecum porto<\/a>). In your mind and in your heart. And in this sense these dead languages let me be alive. I am writing it listening to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yasminlevy.net\/\">Yasmine Levy\u00a0<\/a>who sings in Ladino a Romance language derived from Old Spanish and which is influenced heavily by Hebrew\u00a0 and Aramaic , but also Arabic, Turkish and to a lesser extent Greek and other languages where Sephardic exiles settled around the Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What for Latin, Greek or any ancient language in such a world when nobody uses them for communication? 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