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Re: Latin help

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 5, 2007, 3:17
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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