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To: Houghton M.

“Nosus decipio is nonsense, gibberish.”

I assume nos decipio would be correct?


10 posted on 02/26/2011 9:18:00 AM PST by DrC
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To: DrC

No, because nos is first person plural and decipio is first person singular. Since nos can also be an accusative object as well as a nominative subject, it’s possible to read it as “decipio nos” (I deceive us) but that makes no sense in the context of the story.

Whoever wrote this is clueless.


13 posted on 02/26/2011 10:01:43 AM PST by Houghton M.
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To: DrC

“decipio” is first person singular. “nos” == “we” is
first person plural.


30 posted on 02/26/2011 4:21:39 PM PST by cycjec
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