Re: Latin help
From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, September 4, 2007, 15:55 |
ROGER MILLS wrote:
> Flatus cerebri......... (I know there's a better word for "fart"...)
> I wrote:
>
>> UK:...and so say all of we. (6 syl., no slide on "all")
>
>
> Surely, "...all of us."
Yes, indeed - this ancient Brit can confirm that this side of the Pond
it's "and so say all of us." Tho "all of we" is almost certainly
acceptable in some non-standard dialect or other ;)
The last line of the Latin version I quoted - Num quis illud negat? - is
literally: Surely-not anyone it denies? i.e. Surely no-one denies it?
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