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I found the word "bibliobibuli" under the entry "read too much, people who"
What's the singular of bibliobibuli? Bibliobibulum?
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the singular of bibliobibuli
Whadda they, don't teach you no Latin in law school?
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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.
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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."
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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 ...
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No we don't
What you mean we?
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Thanks, everyone, for your help! I'm sorry I didn't check in earlier.
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"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."
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