I tweeted about this yesterday, from the article:
> "Students remembered 57 per cent ... written in Sans Forgetica, compared to 50 per cent .... in Ariel"
7% delta retention isn't so much, is it?
> "Students remembered 57 per cent ... written in Sans Forgetica, compared to 50 per cent .... in Ariel"
7% delta retention isn't so much, is it?
Tufts University has Lewis & Short online: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/resolveform?redirect=tru...
https://books.google.it/books?id=pdFLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA85&lpg=PA...
Paging Reginald Foster, Father Reginald please!
[1] nux indica is the coconut
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=pinguis&la=la&ca...
I provided the link to google books to the Liber fundamentorum pharmacologia only to show that oleum serpentis was actually an ancient remedy, of course the Latin of a book translated from medieval Persian might be not exactly Cicero, still it should be much better than any translation I can do.
But most probably oleum was a synonym of olive or however vegetable oil in ancient Rome, and it is entirely possible that the actual Persian medicine was the extract of some plant and only called serpentis.
On the other hand, besides the name, we don't actually know if snake oil is actually made of snake oil or snake fat or something else.
"Comedite pinguia" may be not "classic" latin, still it is known enough:
https://books.google.it/books?id=VOmwZ1AwFsMC&printsec=front...
Also, there's a certain point where the delta is relevant enough to justify the extra effort invested (things involving safety/security for example).
There's a bunch of reasons why this could be either better or worse, depending on a myriad of different factors. I think it's a cool tool to have in your kit.