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Page 4 of 8 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 > Topic Options #8771 - 10/27/00 02:09 AM Re: Intellectuals jmh Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/22/00 Posts: 1981 >Agreed. The recent rise in the number of false intellectuals is a cause for great concern. Which gives the lie to the idea that American's can't do irony! Top #8772 - 10/27/00 04:05 AM Re: discalced wsieber old hand Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 1010 Loc: Switzerland Dear Tsuwm, A question, for once: What would you call a person who walks through a trap without even noticing? Top #8773 - 10/27/00 08:00 AM Re: discalced maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757 a person who walks through a trap... A Trappist. Or should that be a Jesuit...? Top #8774 - 10/27/00 08:27 AM Re: discalced Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11579 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky What would you call a person who walks through a trap without even noticing? If he came out unscathed: lucky. In my case: stupid. Top #8775 - 10/27/00 10:19 AM Re: discalced TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/17/00 Posts: 3467 Loc: Marion NC >A question, for once: What would you call a person who walks through a trap without even noticing? An extrapolator??? _________________________ TEd Top #8776 - 10/27/00 10:28 AM Re: discalced tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10464 Loc: this too shall pass >What would you call a person who walks through a trap without even noticing? contrapuntal -ron obvious Top #8777 - 10/27/00 12:02 PM Re: Intellectuals FishonaBike veteran Registered: 10/11/00 Posts: 1346 Loc: Sussex, England ad vitam aeternam Father, I'm impressed ! Does this mean that you really are as one with your nom de plume? Or just that you have a good memory and/or good reference books to hand? Top #8778 - 10/27/00 02:13 PM Re: Intellectuals of troy Carpal Tunnel Registered: 10/17/00 Posts: 5400 Loc: rego park please, could you provide a link to good translation software, or a translation for those of use who have forgotten the little latin we learned.. aside from common phrases, (which thankful good dictionaries include) the only latin i know is in responce to "Gloria in Excelsious Deo" Et in terra pos... and even then i can only sing it! _________________________ my other obsession Top #8779 - 10/28/00 12:00 AM Re: Intellectuals belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/28/00 Posts: 2888 You are one up on me of Troy. The only Latin I know is mea culpa, which my Granny (who is quite religious) says in some sort of prayer at Christmas (or maybe it's Easter). We were never taught Latin in school. I'd be interested in a link also. It seems a shame to only know a phrase that means I am guilty (which I am not, it's not me, you can't prove anything, I wasn't even there ) Top #8780 - 10/28/00 03:02 AM Re: Intellectuals Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409 The only Latin I know is mea culpa, I'm about the same, although one Latin phrase that really stuck was the motto of the Order of St. John: "pro fide, pro utilitate hominem", which we cadets were taught as "for the faith, for the service of mankind." What always struck me as ironic is that one of my corp's chief instructors was devoutly, passionately, atheist in philosophy. I wish I had asked which "fide" she was serving. Top Page 4 of 8 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 > Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview 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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