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Saturday, 2002 September 7, 13:52 — language, me!me!me!, medicine

a little Latin and less Greek

Today I started a course in medical terminology (aiming to make myself more marketable). I have to restrain myself from speaking up too often, as I know more Greek and Latin (and which is which) than the teacher does. Evidently it is thought undesirable to burden the students with such notions as a distinction between nouns, adjectives and verbs.

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