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To: M.K. Borders

In classical Latin it would be: Skip (hard c, short i, as we say skip) e(long e) o(long o) Afrikan (hard c, otherwise as we say African) us (short u).Quite a guy, too. Take that, you Hannibal you.


9 posted on 12/28/2008 7:30:32 PM PST by Robwin
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To: Robwin

Agree 100%. Where are all these other Latinists coming from?

“Dah-dah, dah, dah, dah, dah!
O, utor, fruor, fuscor, potior, vescor
take the ablative case!

Dah, dah!”


17 posted on 12/28/2008 7:43:42 PM PST by Frank Sheed (Fr. V. R. Capodanno, Lt, USN, Catholic Chaplain. 3rd/5th, 1st Marine Div., FMF. MOH, posthumously.)
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To: Robwin
Skipee Ki Yay, Africanus!


23 posted on 12/28/2008 7:52:03 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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