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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

You are probably right, I’m sure it does sound better in Latin. When I first worked out this one, I had to think a while about what it meant. That image I posted was what I finally thought of.


6 posted on 10/10/2022 4:16:27 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

My comment about Latin was intended slightly ironically. In all honesty though, Latin could convey a great deal of meaning with fewer words because of its complex grammatical structure. Where we might use several words to express meaning, Latin could convey the same idea by the inflection (case, tense, and mood) of the verbs and nouns.

Read, for instance, the “Grammatical Analysis” section of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est


11 posted on 10/10/2022 10:57:57 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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