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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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26 Feb 2004 03:31:06 PM |
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OT: Nisi mecum concubueris, phobistae vicerint |
A little help for homunculus
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2441549
Feb 19th 2004
From The Economist print edition
FOR years now, Henry Beard, the founder of National Lampoon, has been
pursuing a rollicking crusade to put Latin back in everyday life. As
he explains, Latin is widely used by lawyers to cheat you, by doctors
to scare you witless and by houseplant sellers to shift their wares.
(See, under "Botanical Latin", grandiflora, tormentosa, pendula,
rugosa and sempervirens, all of which mean "leafless clump of dry
brown twigs in one week flat".) This book lets the homunculus (little
guy) get his own back.
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| User: "Elf M. Sternberg" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Nisi mecum concubueris, phobistae vicerint |
26 Feb 2004 04:23:14 PM |
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(maff) writes:
Heh. I liked that one I put it in my .sig.
Elf
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Elf M. Sternberg, Proud to be an Extinctionist
http://www.drizzle.com/~elf/
Nisi mecum concubueris, phobistae vicerint.
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