stackyFACTSNothing gatekeeps a profession quite like using a completely dead language. For centuries, institutions aggressively refused to print credentials in the local tongue, preferring Latin as a way to project an air of mystical authority and ensure that ordinary citizens couldn't easily verify a practitioner's actual qualifications.
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