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This guy is full of himself: “we know par exp ́eriences nombreuses at funestes they are apt to misuse and misinterpret them”

It reminds me when I learned about Tyndale translating the Latin Bible into English. There was a pushback in creating a commoner’s version of the Bible where the uneducated would be able to read the Bible for themselves. The Catholic Church was later involved in his death.

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He is full of himself because he uses a bit of French in an English text? I don't understand how that works. It's a common literary technique to do this and it is not without place in scholarly articles.

Just because a text is not pandering to the lowest common denominator with respect to literacy, it's not "full of [itself]".

This is not a scholarly article though.

It has the form of a scholarly article, but the author has no credentials, no institution, doesn't cite any references and to my knowledge has not submitted the article for any kind of peer review.

This is effectively Some Dude On Twitter but on Arxiv.

That's a fair assessment. Still, there's no reason to cry posh whenever we see some French.

It's taken from Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les probabilités, not far from the subject at hand.

Yeah, also this is not latin but french, with a typo even (i believe): should be "par expériences nombreuses et funestes" ("et" not "at"). (translation: by numerous and disastrous experiments)

At least it's Latin you can guess the meaning of from context and such.

Woops, it's French, should have known.

Tyndale got in trouble for false translation, not for translation.

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