Re: CHAT: Plus ca change...
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 20, 1999, 4:44 |
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Eric Christopherson wrote:
> I saw a Latin phrase once, something like "mutatus, mutandus" (not
> sure if that's exactly it). Does anyone know this phrase and what it
> means?
It means basically "with all the right things being exchanged". Like, =
if
you say "I think a ticket with George W. Bush and Elizabeth Dole
would make for interesting Presidential and Vice-Presidential Republican
nominations, respectively; the same goes Al Gore and Dick Gephardt for
the Democrats, mutatis mutandis." Or something like that. Can't think =
of
a better example at the moment.
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Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
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Dir, Erstling der erschlafnen Frommen!
Triumph! Der Tod is weggenommen,
der auf der Welt der Geister lag!"
-- from _Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu_
(arranged to music by C. P. E. Bach)
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