Why do you not study etymology?

Why do you not study etymology?

>implying I don't
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>dude this word came from that word and this place
Wow, what wonderfully useful knowledge!

Pleb

don't need to. i have a god-given gift for it.

spot the monolingual.

it makes it easy to find out word meanings in other languages, it makes english easier because you can decipher the meaning of words by knowing the origin of the segments. plus it's interesting and you're a complete pleb

I love reading about word origins and language evolution. What's a good intro book for this?

It's boring

I've been doing it since before I knew what it was.