Interesting aside from the "You Ain't Seen Nuthin' Yet" post

The Hill ^

[Cobra Scott]

Not sure why the thread was closed, don't really care and assume Jim & Company had their reasons. This is not about that.

In the article linked on Drudge, it mentions, somewhat as an aside, the following:

He joked at the second fundraiser that she graduated summa cum laude, "not just magna or laude laude, but summa cum laude."

Not sure if this is a pointed comment, a gaffe, or what, but I do believe a rough translation is actually:

cum laude = with honors suma cum laude = with high honors magna cum laude = with highest honors

I'm open to correction here, but aside from my lack of neo-latin vocabulary, I do believe the order is laude, suma and then magna.

[the invisib1e hand]

so where does “mega” come in?

[RexBeach]

Sona si Latine loqueris!

[hoosiermama]

Great, greatest, biggest.....

We aint seen nothin....is about right. Sure would like to see his original BC and registration for the draft for starters.

[Admin Moderator]

One was pulled because it was a duplicate article. Here is an active article on the story.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259883/posts

[CaptainMorgantown]

Actually, “suma cum laude” means “with highest honors” and is the top designation.

[Little Pig]

Actually, it’s:

cum laude = with honor
magna cum laude = with great honor
summa cum laude = with highest honor

Summa is the latin root of “summit”

[SpinnerWebb]

cum = with

magna cum = with great

summa cum = with supreme...

summa is highest order.

[Sans-Culotte]

cum laude = with honors suma cum laude = with high honors magna cum laude = with highest honors

Summa would be the highest. Magna merely means "great".

[Erik Latranyi]

You all forgot one:

Cum Laude

Magna Cum Laude

Summa Cum Laude

Plaid Cum Laude

[massgopguy]

Magna cum laude, Suman cum laude, the radio’s too loudy

[the invisib1e hand]

so, it's like "gold," "platinum," and "black?" Or like, Coupe, GT, and RS?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

When he said “laude laude”...did he say it in a southern black accent?

[Army Air Corps]

“They’ve gone to plaid!”

[blam]

"so where does “mega” come in?"

Only women and minorities?

[Cobra Scott]

Thanks, and thanks to all respondents.

I am going to have to pull my diploma and take a look. I am pretty sure I missed the cut for the top by some tiny GPA amount like .003 or something, and I was pretty sure it was suma and not magna. It has never been anything important so I really never cared, but it struck me as odd. Maybe I got magna and not suma. All from not protesting a mistake on the last test of a Russian final because I was busy trying to garner meaningful employment, LOL!

[9YearLurker]

Then there’s James Carville’s graduating honor, which he says was ‘Thank the Laude!”

[9YearLurker]

Yep, you would have got magna—and you may have just demonstrated why! ;-)

[Cobra Scott]

LOL! I honestly admit my goal was to fulfill my promise to my wife that after quitting my job and enrolling I would be graduated and gainfully employed in 3 years and she would would be able to stay home and raise the rugrats full time.

It was just a sheepskin. I presented it on my first interview and it was never shown again. Not to take anything away from those who took their education more seriously than I did, I applaud their hard work.

[Young Werther]

My daughter just graduated. Her senior classes included SCUBA and Bowling! She aced both of them and at the Grad ceremonies I congratualted her on achieving SCUBA Cum Laude!

All I can say is Biden was right and the telepromter is brokin!