Eric Gerlach on 13 Feb 2002 19:48:08 -0000 |
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RE: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Using the rest of my proposals for the nweek |
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. Bean On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Jonathan Van Matre wrote: > It'd be enough to impress someone who didn't know any better. Which is the vast majority of American citizens, at least when it comes to Latin. > > --Scoff! > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Donald Whytock [mailto:dwhytock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 9:40 AM > > To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx > > Subject: RE: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Using the rest of my > > proposals for the nweek > > > > > > On 2/13/02 at 8:10 AM Jonathan Van Matre wrote: > > > > >S'arright. It only irks me because I know a smattering of Latin > > >myself--just enough to halfway understand most of them, and > > then I have to > > >go rifle the dictionary to figure out the rest. If I knew > > no Latin at > > >all, I'd just be suitably impressed and leave it at that. > > > > Really? So I could just pick a random work of Cicero, use > > each sentence in order in my signature, and that'd be enough > > to impress someone? :) > > > > Glotmorf > > > > > > > > >