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I\'d rather just move this page over to the Tropers namespace, but is that considered rude?
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* Plato is modern? Maybe you should make that \
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* Plato is modern? Maybe you should make that \\\"Plato can be read in a modern way\\\". But that\\\'s something that can lead to confusion - a fact Spengler mentioned pretty often. What you read in Plato isn\\\'t necessarily the same thing he meant. There are also at least two more kinds of Platonism: The classical one (around the time he lived) and neo-Platonism.
* I don\\\'t see the particular difference between \\\"good people shouldn\\\'t become soldiers\\\" and \\\"soldiering was ... something beneath a free man\\\". Maybe it\\\'s because of the double meaning of \\\"good\\\": Good as in ethical, and good as in \\\"stnading higher than a beggar or a criminal\\\".
* About Latin: Spengler also noted that Classical Latin wasn\\\'t exactly the same as medieval church Latin. As he wrote, the former used to say \\\"fecisti\\\" for \\\"I have done\\\", while the latter used the form \\\"ego habeo factum\\\" - as he would\\\'ve said, the clothing is still Latin, but the bone structure is western European.
You know, there is one thing I\\\'d like to know: Did you read any books that refute Spengler? Because somehow I doubt that you read the whole TheDeclineOfTheWest and understood everything what he meant. (It\\\'s true that he used some words in a peculiar way, but it\\\'s AllInTheManual.) I\\\'d like to know your sources. Because nowadays I want to spend less time on TVTropes, and since English isn\\\'t my native language, if I state something, it may lead to misunderstandings. You seem pretty confident in what you write, but I think you may be too confident.
PS: Try to do it without namecalling. Did I use it?
* I don\\\'t see the particular difference between \\\"good people shouldn\\\'t become soldiers\\\" and \\\"soldiering was ... something beneath a free man\\\". Maybe it\\\'s because of the double meaning of \\\"good\\\": Good as in ethical, and good as in \\\"stnading higher than a beggar or a criminal\\\".
* About Latin: Spengler also noted that Classical Latin wasn\\\'t exactly the same as medieval church Latin. As he wrote, the former used to say \\\"fecisti\\\" for \\\"I have done\\\", while the latter used the form \\\"ego habeo factum\\\" - as he would\\\'ve said, the clothing is still Latin, but the bone structure is western European.
You know, there is one thing I\\\'d like to know: Did you read any books that refute Spengler? Because somehow I doubt that you read the whole TheDeclineOfTheWest and understood everything what he meant. (It\\\'s true that he used some words in a peculiar way, but it\\\'s AllInTheManual.) I\\\'d like to know your sources. Because nowadays I want to spend less time on TVTropes, and since English isn\\\'t my native language, if I state something, it may lead to misunderstandings. You seem pretty confident in what you write, but I think you may be too confident.
PS: Try to do it without namecalling. Did I use it?
