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To: tinyowl

Where’s the Irunt?


13 posted on 01/12/2020 3:00:17 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: GreyHoundSailor
This was so long ago I can't believe I remember any of it ... so ... I can't vouch for its correctness.

I DO remember my favorite Marshall translation: What, Linus, you ask, does my farm at Nonentus offer me. This is what it offers me: You are not there.

It's simplicity and elegance ... it's almost as if Howyus Carrus' great great great great x 100 grandfather wrote it. (Howie Carr of "When the phone don't ring, you'll know it's me")

But alas, I claim no accuracy in my memory of Latin, for some random reason the combination of a wrong tense with 'Iran' made conjugations come to mind.

Sum Es Est Sumus Estus Sunt! (I think that's right -> no internet help! But might be wrong.)

My Latin teacher those years used to do flashcards ... and as you know with Latin you do nominative and genitive ... he would always give 'Juvenis ,Juvenis' to the same kid, which if you pause in between, is a kind of an insult. Also gave him 'Apud' ... heheheh ... those were funny days.

25 posted on 01/12/2020 3:43:54 PM PST by tinyowl
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