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#136418 12/26/04 11:35 PM
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Welcome, bluefruitbowl. I have a yellowfruitbowl I made that sits on my kitchen counter. I fill it with lemons from my own lemon tree. Please come back and play with us some more. I see from your profile your name is Mia. Odds are you are of the female persuasion. Please tell themilum so he doesn't get too embarassed.


#136419 12/28/04 01:23 PM
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heehee. i am indeed female. this place is fun.

puto te esse stultum

#136420 12/28/04 02:50 PM
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So, how did the Hebrew "Hawwah" mutate in English to "Eve"?


#136421 12/28/04 03:07 PM
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You do? But we've hardly met.


Stultus est licut stultus facit.

Edit for non-Latiners: "Stupid is as stupid does."

#136422 12/28/04 09:32 PM
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no. i kid. although, am i correct in assuming that you are female? if so, then it can't apply to you.

puto te esse stultum

#136423 12/28/04 09:39 PM
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Putting aside the fact that in this particular forum signatures are marginally less welcome than Michael Moore at a Bush family reunion, the choice of an insulting tagline deliberately obscured in Latin does raise intersting questions about the user's notion of courteous social intercourse.


#136424 12/28/04 09:46 PM
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it does seem that everyone is marginally offended by my signatures or puzzled. im sorry, and i have removed it, for what its worth.


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You might want to check your declensions before you post something in Latin, bluefruitbowl, especially if it looks like an insult! You're dealing with a group, some of whom, marginally at least, know Latin.

Ave, et die dulci fruere!

PS Yes, I am female, if my bio-page is to be believed.




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check my declensions? te is accusative, stultum is masculine and neuter accusative. or am i confused?


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I also had thought that it should be nominative but on reconsideration I'm thinking that accusative *is correct. It's the old accusative subject with infinitive verb thang that the Romans were so fond of and us poor case-unconscious Anglophones have total lost track of. And as far as Fools go, around here I'm the head Fool.


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