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An excellent choice for AWAD. Nice one Anu!
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An excellent choice for posting spot. Nice one KJ! Hi E
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And to a few. posting anywhere else would be "casus belli".
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i didn't understand why the plural for casus belli was the same as the singular. do you pronounce it differently when it's plural? it's funny, the "us" in casus would indicate singular (to my pitifully uneducated eye), and the "i" in belli looks plural. seems like strange construction.
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I remember only enough Latin to recognize "belli" as the genitive form. The "cause of war".
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The -i in belli is the ending for the genitive singular; bellum is 2nd declension. Casus is 4th declension and the nominative plural is casus. One of those usses is probably with a long u but I'll be dinged if I remember which one.
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gee, thanks, faldage... now everything's clear as mud. er--- i was thinking that it must be a genitive declensionative pluralization nominalification. mmhmm. that was my next guess.
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(ahem) War! (Good God, y'all)What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! (now verbal war herein and elsewhere is a whole nother thang*) --- *apologies to Voltaire pardon my French via - YES! - Edward Bulwer-Lytton!  ... retiring my plume for the night....
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> now verbal war herein and elsewhere is a whole nother thang
My sentiments exactly, Anna! Some of the most rewarding and invigorating discussions are bellicose, at least to begin with. They are often started by knee-jerk reactions to ambiguous or incomplete information understood as a veritable war cry; this allows people to be frank :-)
BTW, in AWAD it said that casus belli was 'New Latin'. How new does that make it?
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What is casus dictum? It is not listed in my dictionary of foreign phrases. Was it an AWAD word that I missed?
Maybe I could try to LIU it sometime.
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