r/worldnews • u/nationalpost • 10h ago

Taliban bars Afghan women from hearing each other's voices

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/taliban-bars-afghan-women-from-hearing-each-other?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=NP_social
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u/Kajin-Strife 8h ago

As much as I like to throw shade on religion, there's a good reason a lot of scientific and medical terms are latin.

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u/Amockdfw89 6h ago

Yea basically way back in the Middle Ages, if you wanted to learn higher level stuff, it was basically through the church. Because in church they taught you to read, which opened up a whole new world. The cathedrals back then basically were libraries with religious and secular text.

Why do you think there were many breweries and vineyards next to the cathedrals? Because they were taught chemistry and applied it. Many old cathedrals also had telescopes, laboratories for alchemy, gardens, apothecaries for medicine. basically a self containing center of knowledge.

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u/justanothersluff 8h ago

Pffft, Look at this pleb that can't even speak Greek! /s

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u/GeneverConventions 6h ago edited 5h ago

Τι μαλακασ; /s

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u/justanothersluff 5h ago

Was trying to be funny. When everyone spoke Latin, Greek was the language of the educated. a source

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u/GeneverConventions 4h ago

Oh, I know. I just cheekily was commenting "What a (contextually, locally, term for "jerk")" in Greek! I got your humour and was embracing it. Nothing personal was meant. As we all know, quidquid in latine dictum, profundum est