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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 4 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 Re: bibliobibuli #111159 08/31/03 10:25 PM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 95 V vbq journeyman vbq journeyman V Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 95 I found the word "bibliobibuli" under the entry "read too much, people who" What's the singular of bibliobibuli? Bibliobibulum? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bibliobibulum #111160 09/01/03 10:31 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 the singular of bibliobibuli Whadda they, don't teach you no Latin in law school? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bibliobibulum #111161 09/01/03 11:29 AM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 95 V vbq journeyman vbq journeyman V Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 95 don't teach you no Latin in law school? That went out with the "Paper Chase". http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_product.asp?master_movie_id=4721#review Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bibliobibulum #111162 09/01/03 12:43 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 went out with the "Paper Chase" Well, I knew they din't never taught you to pernounce it, but, geesh, seems like you could dope out a few grammar rules. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bibliobibulum #111163 09/01/03 02:28 PM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 95 V vbq journeyman vbq journeyman V Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 95 but, geesh, seems like you could dope out a few grammar rules What fer? We don't write it, we just cite it. Besides, "de minimis non curat lex". http://www.sacklunch.net/Latin/D/deminimisnoncuratlex.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bibliobibulus #111164 09/01/03 02:55 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 we just cite it So as far as you know, when you say qui tacet consentire videtur you're really saying, "I'll shut up now and let you hang my client." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bibliobibuli #111165 09/01/03 06:34 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok The lovely AnnaS misremembers slightly. It was two separate languages: English and Danish, as spoke over a thousand years ago. They discovered that they had many roots in common but the declensional endings were miles apart. They decided to drop the declensional endings and instead to use word order to indicate case. Quantum leap in the development of the language we know and love and argue interminably about. No we don't. And that's "argue about interminably" to you, buster ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bibliobibuli #111166 09/01/03 07:42 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 No we don't What you mean we? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bibliobibuli #111167 09/02/03 12:17 AM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 5 USA B Biblio OP stranger OP Biblio stranger B Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 5 USA Thanks, everyone, for your help! I'm sorry I didn't check in earlier. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bibliobibuli #111168 09/02/03 01:09 AM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean "It is often forgotten that (dictionaries) are artificial repositories, put together well after the languages they define. The roots of language are irrational and of a magical nature." -Jorge Luis Borges, Prologue to "El otro, el mismo." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 4 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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