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#130889 07/31/04 09:30 PM
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"locus classicus" - Just wondering... does every board have their own Latin?

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You'll have to personally ask what tsuwm intends when he uses them... as if we'll ever see that *happen again.

As for myself - it informs to the reader of at least one of the following three things, but most times all of them:

- The meaning of the word is interpretable, and its use is/was intended that way. There is a good chance you think this word means something different than I do and an even better chance that I don't mean what the word *says.

- It may not be the word I was looking for, but taken in context, you'll probably understand I was being sarcastic. But, maybe *not...

- Tongue firmly planted in cheek.

EDIT - I firmly believe that at least one word in most sentences (of mine, at least) fits the above *bill and, therefore, my use of the asterisk offers more *functionality. I doing my best to say that with a straight face.


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tsuwm's usage, as is mine, is based on the convention of delimiting a *strongly* stressed word with asterisks. A *slightly stressed word only gets one, in front.


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A *slightly stressed word only gets one, in front.

I like it. Thanks.


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"locus classicus" - Just wondering... does every board have their own Latin?

Not sure what you *mean. I was just asking for a standard reference for your usage.


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jheem - What does "locus classicus" translate into?

I can guess. I'd be also guessing that even Latin has dialects. All in good fun, of course.

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Now I don't know what 'mean' means... or do I.

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And on another note:

- I like to use 'these' single quotes when emphasising a word or talking about a word as an object, whereas "these" double quotes are actually® quoting somone's usage.

'Actually' is actually® registered to tsuwm and its use is restricted (YCLIU).


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What does "locus classicus" translate into?

Secundum A-H: "A passage from a classic or standard work that is cited as an illustration or instance."

http://www.bartleby.com/61/56/L0225600.html

Classicus means all kinds of things in Classical Latin: it means related to or of a classis ('a division of the Roman people; fleet; army'), 'related to the fleet; first class'.

Now I don't know what 'mean' means... or do I.

I've *had trouble with mean since reading Ogden and Richards' Meaning of Meaning.

I like to use 'these' single quotes when emphasising a word or talking about a word as an object, whereas "these" double quotes are actually® quoting somone's usage.

I like to use foot signs to delimit glosses: e.g., French glas (< L. classis) 'death knell'. And, I use inch signs to delimit direct quotations, e.g., X said "How classy.", but also as "scare" quotes. As for apostrophes and other kinds of curly quotes, I only use them wysiwyggily, like in a word processor.

'Actually' is actually® registered to tsuwm and its use is restricted (YCLIU).

I was under the impression that you couldn't register a single English word as a trademark. But *cool! Besides, the TPO is closed on the weekends.


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I'm guessing (Using a latin translator) either you're asking me if I feel I had fulfilled my duties by posting as I did or if you did as you posted in response.

Was I even close?

Geez, it's *dry in here...


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Using a latin translator either you're asking me if I feel I had fulfilled my duties by posting as I did or if you did as you posted in response.

The subject line is it? Your pre- & de- fork()ed subject line just got me to riffing. Defututus 'exhausted by sensuality' is a hapax legomenon which Catullus applies to a girl Ameana. Futuo 'to engage in sexual intercourse', OTOH, is a common enough verb, though almost as dirty in Latin as its counterpart is in English. I was trying to say "Where the heck is it?" i.e., the little asterisk. But it could just as easily be imagined to mean: 'where/when was he sexually exhausted?', kind of tuckered out. Latin futuo yields Spanish hoder and French foutre.

The poem in question:

Ameana puella defututa
tota milia me decem poposcit,
ista turpiculo puella naso,
decoctoris amica Formiani.
Propinqui, quibus est puella curae,
amicos medicosque convocate:
non est sana puella, nec rogare
qualis sit solet aes imaginosum.

Carl Orff used this poem in his Catulli carmina which except for the intro and the outro is all a capella.


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Are you a Southern boy in West Coast clothing, jheem?


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Are you a Southern boy in West Coast clothing?

Nope, I was born back East, actually North-East of Sonoma in California. The hopsital is now a winery. Sonoma sided with the Union during the Civil War. It must be Petaluma you're thinking of, or Rough and Ready; they both sided with the successionists.


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