Re: CHAT: Worse Greek 102 (was: Bad Latin 101)
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 2, 2001, 7:42 |
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At 9:23 am -0500 1/2/01, John Cowan wrote:
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>....................... "Viri" (or doubly illiterate
>"virii"), "rhinoceri", and "hippopotami" are probably now impossible
>to get rid of.
Actually 'hippopotami' is correct Latin, tho rather affected English, and
they have been seen roaming over here at times.
But PLEASE, PLEASE keep the other two monsters your side of the Atlantic!
Ray.
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A mind which thinks at its own expense
will always interfere with language.
[J.G. Hamann 1760]
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