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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.
heehee. i am indeed female. this place is fun.
puto te esse stultum
So, how did the Hebrew "Hawwah" mutate in English to "Eve"?
You do? But we've hardly met.
Stultus est licut stultus facit.
Edit for non-Latiners: "Stupid is as stupid does."
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
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.
it does seem that everyone is marginally offended by my signatures or puzzled. im sorry, and i have removed it, for what its worth.
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.
check my declensions? te is accusative, stultum is masculine and neuter accusative. or am i confused?
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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