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Many found in Asia and Europe. A famous one in St. Peter
Square, Rome. I wonder if the Rosetta Stone is considered
to be a stele?
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Em--did it come from a pillar? Acc'g. to the def., I think a stele has to be a pillar of some kind.
And boy, did I get a surprise: he said for formulae, antennae, etc., the last syllable is pronounced lee. I have always said lay.
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and I thought it was 'lie' (which is given as a variant).
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The Rosetta stone is considered a stele. This part of ancient scripture isn't. Link @Jackie. stelay- the European approach.
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The Rosetta Stone which helped scholars translate
Egyptian hieroglyphics comes from a stele, then?
I know it was written in three languages. Of course
I could google it, I know.
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It calls it a stele in the very first sentence. Amazing find. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone
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Unusual plurals?
How about we first learn the correct use of common plurals??
I still get upset when they say "the news is...", "the data is in..."
And regarding pronouncing the Latin plural --ae: I fear that the old Romans would not have understood us.
Alexa Fleckenstein M.D., physician, author.
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An oft heard comment back in high school Latin:
Latin killed the Romans and it's killing me. We cannot
even think in the terms or manner Latin speaks.
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Unusual plurals?
How about we first learn the correct use of common plurals??
I still get upset when they say "the news is...", "the data is in..."
And regarding pronouncing the Latin plural --ae: I fear that the old Romans would not have understood us.
Alexa Fleckenstein M.D., physician, author. is a mass singular. Data is often a mass singular. We're not liable to run into many old Romans to misunderstand us. The pronunciation of AE in Latin changed during the Middle Ages. I ran a Google ngram on 'the news is' vs. 'the news are'. I was surprised at the high frequency of the latter.
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That ngram is interesting. I've never heard the
news are. And we have really poor news anchors here often.
But even they don't say that.
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