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It should be Illegal Actually* for Classics articles to include untranslated sections of Greek and Latin, because it& #39;s pretentious and inaccessible, and that& #39;s my spicy take du jour.
*the legal ramifications would be me staring coldly at the author for five hours, unblinking
*the legal ramifications would be me staring coldly at the author for five hours, unblinking
Thread of my favourite elitist responses to this:
Elitist wanker implies, through the incorrect use of quotation marks, that I& #39;m not actually a person
Elitist wanker implies, through the incorrect use of quotation marks, that I& #39;m not actually a person
Elitist wanker, in a series of now-deleted tweets, proves that they don& #39;t know that Classical Reception exists as a field of study
Elitist wankers flirt obnoxiously in public over discussions of how students (read: me, in this instance) are Just Lazy and too busy talking about """""rights""""" and being PC to engage in scholarship
Not posting the tweet, because they made a fair (although unrelated) point about Anglocentrism, but someone called me an English monoglot, ignoring the WELSH FLAG in my name, which I think is a good example of just wanting to argue and NOT LOOKING AT WHO/WHAT YOU& #39;RE RESPONDING TO
Like, my point here is resolutely not & #39;all scholarship should be in English,& #39; because that& #39;s exclusionary in itself and also racist. My point is very much & #39;if an article is in English/French/German, then it should include a translation of the texts into English/French/German.& #39;
Elitist wanker is also a sexist wanker. Women in Classics are The Problem, and definitely not just because they won& #39;t go out with him.
Elitist wanker thinks women get paid for posting tweets on Twitter dot com. God, I wish we did. It would almost mitigate the risk of encountering people like this.
Honestly, this guy& #39;s whole Twitter feed is just him having a hard-on for Ezra Pound, so I think he just wanted an excuse to explore his kink, but still. Asking for accessibility means I hate knowledge, apparently.
