Author Topic: A question for someone who knows latin (Read 3578 times)

compline · « **Reply #25 on:** July 06, 2013, 05:33:39 AM »

Quote from: Neil Obstat

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Ne illegitimis carborundum.

-- By not improperly grinding us down?

Don't let the bastards grind you down

claudel · « **Reply #26 on:** July 06, 2013, 11:10:21 AM »

Quote from: Iuvenalis

Goodness, I fondly miss the days when you were on FE and not here with your pedantry and exhaustive (and exhausting) replies.

The italicized bits seconded. I now have reason to thank the good Lord I never frequented FE!

Quote from: compline

Don't let the bastards grind you down

Thank you for the gloss, compline. One forgets sometimes that yesterday's examples of adolescent smart-aleckiness are occasionally replaced by today's rather than merely supplemented by them.

I had thought the illegitimis expression was still as widely familiar as, say, the would-be-waggish high school boy's translation of sic transit gloria mundi as "Gloria barfed on the bus on Monday morning," which I first heard in 1959. I suppose that [ahem] masterpiece is lost, too.

Rosarium · « **Reply #27 on:** July 06, 2013, 02:58:56 PM »

Quote from: claudel

Quote from: Iuvenalis
Goodness, I fondly miss the days when you were on FE and not here with your pedantry and exhaustive (and exhausting) replies.

The italicized bits seconded.

You and another think you are not involved in interactions which involve yourselves?

Read this thread from start to finish and see who started what and who posted what.

Read what else I posted.

This issue started with another, and is continued by you.

If I did not have a familiar name, these remarks about me would not have been posted.

It seems that people are too easily drawn towards forgetting the actual exchange of thoughts and just settle for social grandstanding.

I know very well people get a mental image of a person and then forget that the person is real and only address what is already in their mind. It is incredibly useless and it serves no purpose. What do I or anybody benefit from that kind of thing?

Rosarium · « **Reply #28 on:** July 06, 2013, 03:05:24 PM »

Quote from: claudel

I now have reason to thank the good Lord I never frequented FE!

And this is completely out of line.

My way of writing is now a reason to have never used a forum I once used?

The moral hazards present and promoted on FE, and the scandals which have plagued it, are reasons for avoiding FE. If your inability to interact with people who do not meet your social expectations is more important than morality, then you have serious issues.

And your statement is extremely insulting to me, as the scandals on FE are something I think are extremely damaging and will likely continue to be damaging to many who would seek the faith.

Man has reached new levels with technology and communication, yet, generally fails to rise above a troop of chimps beating their chests and tossing feces at people who make them feel threatened.

Everyone has room for improvement, and I know I certainly do, but I am not going to regress by emulating what I usually encounter.

Zeitun · « **Reply #29 on:** July 06, 2013, 03:21:06 PM »

cat fight!!!!