tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053388656863652665.post7511759249040681799..comments2023-04-28T01:53:27.359-07:00Comments on Mirabile dictu: Name changeI got an "A" in Crazy Beeyotchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14181117357928076971noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053388656863652665.post-39333686548121294932008-09-14T13:01:00.000-07:002008-09-14T13:01:00.000-07:00Thank you, Dr. Z and Dedalus, for your affirmation...Thank you, Dr. Z and Dedalus, for your affirmation! Dedalus, I too would like to have something wise and witty to share about declensions etc, but it would require dusting off notes from undergraduate latin. I'm just going to run with it. After all, as Dr. Z said, mirabile dictu suits me better. Oh, and Dr. Z: I haven't worn the osculare fundamentum shirt lately--I feel that it was ill planned. If the person seeing it doesn't understand the Latin, they figure I'm just pretentious. And if they DO understand it (or after I've explained it them) well, then they hafta figure I'm just pretty rude. It's a Latin version of one of those obnoxious "attitude" t-shirts that I find so distasteful. Following this pattern, my next homemade Latin t-shirt should say "Lequere mannui" (Talk to the hand--I think. As much as I'd like to, it might be awkward to approach Milton on sassy english to Latin phrases)I got an "A" in Crazy Beeyotchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14181117357928076971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053388656863652665.post-62669309007634527832008-09-13T10:41:00.000-07:002008-09-13T10:41:00.000-07:00Ere, its own osculare fundamentum moment. Not "it...Ere, its own osculare fundamentum moment. Not "it's." Gr.Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053388656863652665.post-42523851611492120902008-09-13T10:40:00.000-07:002008-09-13T10:40:00.000-07:00As much as I like the idea of Osculare Fundamentum...As much as I like the idea of Osculare Fundamentum (after all, "Quod She" is meant, in part, to reference the moment from the Miller's Tale I quote -- the moment just after it's own osculare fundamentum moment), you then wouldn't be able to wear that t-shirt you had made around campus unless you want to out your blog!<BR/><BR/>Besides, mirabile dictu is a little more positive and it suits you.Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053388656863652665.post-47601265917234850702008-09-12T22:28:00.000-07:002008-09-12T22:28:00.000-07:00O, it's lovely; don't worry about the particulars....O, it's lovely; don't worry about the particulars. We're from the generation where to feel any love for Latin at all puts us well ahead of the game. <I>Sic transit gloria mundi.</I><BR/><BR/>It's actually sort of Tragic, isn't it? We know just enought to appreciate this stuff, but we can't know if we're doing it right because we aren't required to know, and who's got the time to learn? I wanted to make some complicated declension/conjugation joke about just who's going to <I>osculare</I> whose <I>fundamentum</I>, getting comedy out of noun-classes and case-marking. But that's entirely beyond my meagre Latin skills. And probably my comic skills, as well, but <I>I</I> would've thought it was funny.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, you'd have to ask Dr. Virago's friend Milton about all that, as you probably know. Well-versed in Virgil, etc. And oh-so-approachable. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com