Re: CHAT Latin sig? (was: Conlang Flags)
From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, September 7, 2004, 3:22 |
Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > But not many times with *viditur I hope!
>
> I'd only seen it that way until your correction. A Google search finds
> 10,000 web pages with that phrase using "viditur", and only 2,300 with
> it using "videtur".
>
Times like this, I wish I saved the long-ago "Bloom County" comic strip, the
gist of which was "Even if 2,000,000 people say (do?) it, it's still wrong."
So suitable to so many occasions.
(Later) Unbelievable...! Blessings on google! I found it on-line; not quite
as I remembered it, but still
apt--http://www.angelfire.com/vamp/shoopshoop/opus.html About 2/3 of the
way down; it starts with Opus saying "May I interject with a parable about
foolishness?"