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To: SunkenCiv; Rennes Templar
This is great, thanks!

I'm only about a third of the way through so far because there's so much in here.

Talk about a treasure trove of etymological entertainment, of putting the pun back into punctuation.

Here's an example in the very "facing" mark:

Etymology

From Medieval Latin pūnctus versus (literally “facing mark”).

Noun
punctus versus

1. (palaeography) A medieval punctuation mark marking the end of a sentence (approximately ;)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punctus_versus

Now if that doesn't indicate just how much has been lost in translation, nothing does 😉

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(See? It never ends..)

14 posted on 08/19/2024 3:53:46 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Ezekiel

A lack of punctuation is an alibi for correcting the rabbi.


49 posted on 08/19/2024 6:58:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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