Re: OT: graffitum

It's a slightly ironic pseudo-Latin term that I've
heard being used as a singular of "graffiti" - ironic
in that using a "high intellectual" language like
Latin for something slightly thuggish and uncouth is,
well, ironic.

I, not often needing a singular for "graffiti",
assumed that the person I heard using "graffitum" knew
more than I did.  Maybe they're just as ignorant.

Geoff


--- caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
wrote:

> >Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> wrote:
>
>
> >One by one the penguins are stealing my sanity
> >-Graffitum spotted on a bridge in England
>
> IIRC, we have borrowed the word "graffiti" from the
> Italian.  This
> would make the singular "graffito."
>
> "Graffitum" looks like a Latin 2nd declension neuter
> noun.  If this
> were so, the plural would be "graffita."
>
> Charlie
>

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One by one the penguins are stealing my sanity
-Graffitum spotted on a bridge in England


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