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If you studied Latin at school and had the opportunity to learn languages abroad, life as an academic is much easier. Conversely, if your secondary school didn¡¯t have the capability to teach you multiple languages, you get some pretty strange reactions from your fellow scholars.

This is according to a discussion on Twitter started by , lecturer in 20th and 21st century literature at the University of Salford, who asked if any of her followers had encountered problems as a result of being an academic from a less privileged background.

In one contribution to the discussion, says that ¡°listening to a [conference] delegate talk about her experience of a council estate as tho¡¯ it were trip to a zoo was certainly low point¡±, while in another, recalls the ¡°stomach churning moment you get when people ask you ¡®what your parents do?¡¯¡±.

Dr Magennis¡¯ Storify brings together the conversation in full: