Re: CHAT Latin sig? (was: Conlang Flags)
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 6, 2004, 19:51 |
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On Sunday, September 5, 2004, at 11:48 , Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 07:34:53PM +0100, Ray Brown wrote:
> On Saturday, September 4, 2004, at 11:41 , Shanthanu Bhardwaj wrote:
>>> ``Quidquid latine dictum, altum viditur''
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> I've seen this many, many times, usually with the "est" included,
But not many times with *viditur I hope!
The main thing that shrieked at me was the non-Latin word.
> and usually glossed as "Whatever is said in Latin seems profound."
Umm - 'dictum est' = "is said" - must be medieval, not Classical. But even
in medieval Latin, "seems" is 'videtur'.
Ray
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