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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Usenet article <199809230518.WAA19312@wall.org> (1998)

 

Larry Wall

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He is studying closely, recovering his Latin, going to learn Greek, and seems altogether more rational than usual — but he is such a man of fits and starts he is not much to be depended on. Still he thinks of nothing but poetry as his being's end and aim, and sometime or other he will, I doubt not, do something valuable.

 

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Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek
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