Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

I chose my middle/high school partly because it offered Greek (and French) instead of Latin (Latin was added as an elective a few years after I started there), but medical terminology is at least as much Greek-based as Latin-based anyhow.

You, OTOH, probably deal with Old English and Middle English much better than I do, from having studied German. I'm not sure which would have served me better overall, since I spend a lot of time talking and thinking about science, where Greek and Latin come in handy, but also staring at medieval song lyrics and poetry where German would help ... and of course philosophy, where all three get used.

Language is cool and fascinating and knowing multiple languages is useful ... I really wish I were better at learning human languages (I pick up computer languages at the drop of a hat, but the most complex of those is far simpler than any natural language), not only to be able to converse with more people and read more peoples' literature, but also to better understand how language works in general and better grok history. Alas, I struggle outside of the familiar territory of Modern* English, though I fare slightly better with text than speech.

[*] I'm counting "Early Modern" English as part of Modern English because ... well, egocentrically, it feels like the same language to me -- feels as easy and familiar to me ... even though I know there are arguments for classifying the language of Shakespeare and the KJV as being a distinct stage between Middle English and current Modern English. For me, Middle English ranges from "looks like weird English with some unfamiliar vocabulary" to "looks like I should be able to understand it but I don't." Old English looks (to me) even more foreign than German, though I recognize a few words and a few roots here and there.