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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>