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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8092136, member: 19463&quot;]My study of ancient language taught me that people who believe they know how to pronounce things tend to ignore the fact that Greek and Latin were around for centuries and spread over huge areas and not all of the variations matched Cicero.&nbsp; I wonder how it would go for a time traveler who made fun of Sheptimish Sheverish.&nbsp; I enjoy listening to YouTube videos of certain scholars with accents different than mine.&nbsp; When they add or delete a letter here and there, I get over it.&nbsp; How?</p><p><br /></p><p>I am also strongly of the opinion that history is not a study of what was as much as it is a study of what various people perceived it to be both at that time and as it was seen in some later time and place.&nbsp; Even today we have no general agreement on who is the hero and who is the villain.&nbsp; I once believed that no fair history could be written until all those who lived during that time were gone.&nbsp; Now, I push that &#039;safe&#039; date back several millennia.&nbsp; We all see truth through different eyes.&nbsp; What?</p><p><br /></p><p>The most common question form a toddler is &#039;Why?&#039;&nbsp; The most common answer is &#039;Because I said so!&#039;&nbsp; Later we go to school to learn what we are required to parrot back to get the exit paperwork.&nbsp; Why?</p><p><br /></p><p>Dates require footnotes explaining the calendar system then and now.&nbsp; When?</p><p><br /></p><p>That leaves &#039;Who&#039;?&nbsp; I have met some very interesting people over my years being interested in history and coins.&nbsp; Some of them were really great people; some we don&#039;t miss.&nbsp; Still, I have the most fond memories of about a hundred &#039;Coin-friends&#039; of whom about half of whom I have actually seen in person.&nbsp; Those people, real and virtual, actual and imagined, are the most significant side &#039;benefit&#039; of my life in coins.&nbsp; For those of you I have imagined to be a good friend, I only ask you don&#039;t burst my bubble and tell me you really are a jerk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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