Author Topic: Empty (Read 7714 times)

roscoe · « **on:** August 07, 2010, 12:32:18 AM »

I hate to pick on Myrna but could you please provide a source for your continued translation of the latin vacante into the english empty or vice versa. :smoke-pot: :wine-drinking:

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #1 on:** August 07, 2010, 01:21:07 AM »

Look at the sign the next time you pass a motel. It will say "Vacancy" or "No Vacancy", meaning they either have or do not have rooms that are empty -- i.e., no guest presently occupies them.

Roman Catholic · « **Reply #2 on:** August 07, 2010, 01:36:45 AM »

Quote from: roscoe

:smoke-pot: :wine-drinking:

Roscoe were you were partaking of both when you wrote that post?

CM · « **Reply #3 on:** August 07, 2010, 01:03:40 PM »

Gee, I thought this was elementary.

roscoe · « **Reply #4 on:** August 07, 2010, 01:06:13 PM »

Here is a link to the various translations of the english word empty to the latin. No matter how much :wine-drinking: or :smoke-pot: I had last night nor any amount of sophistry by anyone else will not change the fact that the latin vacante does not mean empty and the english empty does not mean vacante!!!

http://catholic.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookdown.pl?empty

roscoe · « **Reply #5 on:** August 07, 2010, 01:07:18 PM »

Why did the size of this page just go over the edge of my computer?

roscoe · « **Reply #6 on:** August 07, 2010, 01:08:31 PM »

The word noted by CM is vacans and not vacante

roscoe · « **Reply #7 on:** August 07, 2010, 01:11:53 PM »

Please note again the sophistry of CM( what is he doing in the Crisis section?) as he uses vacans-- which is not the word in dispute here.

roscoe · « **Reply #8 on:** August 07, 2010, 01:13:05 PM »

I wonder if CM will post his dictionay's definition of vacante-- not vacans.

CM · « **Reply #9 on:** August 07, 2010, 01:28:54 PM »

It's not in that particular dictionary, but you don't seem to understand Latin. Latin words are made up of roots and suffixes, the suffix changing such things as the tense or subject. It does not effect the basic meaning of the word.

All you had to do was go to the same site and look for vacante instead of empty (click on Whitaker's Words first to be able to input Latin).

Marijuana is not intrinsically evil, but too much of it is a sin.

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #10 on:** August 07, 2010, 01:42:11 PM »

roscoe,

You would be wise to let this one go...as you have been most soundly refuted.

roscoe · « **Reply #11 on:** August 07, 2010, 01:42:39 PM »

Now we are told that the word vacante is not in the dictionary sourced(sorced) by CM. I don't believe it.

The reason we are not being treated to a definition of vacante from CM's dictionary is because it does not say empty.

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #12 on:** August 07, 2010, 01:50:30 PM »

roscoe,

You clearly do not realize it, but you are only making yourself look even more ignorant. Trust me -- you have LOST this one.

roscoe · « **Reply #13 on:** August 07, 2010, 02:24:20 PM »

I do not trust U.

roscoe · « **Reply #14 on:** August 07, 2010, 02:31:57 PM »

My apologies to CM as I did find a Charleton Lewis Latin dictionary on line and vacante does not seem to be there-- kind of an oversight. At any rate, no definition of vacante meaning empty has been sourced-- only sorced.