Re: Latin help
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 5, 2007, 3:17 |
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In a message dated 9/4/2007 4:54:53 PM Central Daylight Time,
laokou@COMCAST.NET writes:
> > > > Num quis illud negat?
>
> Well, now, this makes some sense. I was under the impression we were
> supposed to sing this to "I've Been Workin' on the Railroad" (and why would our UK
> cousins be such aficionados of Foster?) which wasn't working for me at all. In
> fact, it's "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," which works infinitely better,
> though I'm still not loving it. At least the first line falls in line with the
> way I sing it.
>
But the last line of the Latin scans all wrong for that melody.
stevo </HTML>
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