"Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Ed Cryer wrote on 11 mrt 2008 in alt.language.latin:
>
>> Do you reckon I'm wasting my time with my Time Machine, then? I've
>> got
>> Marcus Tullius Cicero on my visiting list.
>> I've even been working on my introductory address to him when I turn
>> up
>> like Bill & Ted at his villa in Tusculum.
>> Ave Marce Tulli. Mihi nomen est Eduardo atque tempus meum in
>> peregrinatione per alia tem****a consumere soleo.
>> Cave Mar*** Atonium. Cave proscriptionem futuram.
>> (Hello Marcus Tullius. My name is Edward and I spend my time
>> travelling
>> through other times. Beware of Mark Antony. Beware of a proscription
>> to
>> come.)
>
> Mar*** Atonium?
>
> Since he wouldn't have heard Shakespeare's
> Mark Anthony speach about a homo honorabilis.
> an isn't yet afraid of radiatio nuclearis,
> beter take him to the Brusselense Atomium.
>
> ;-)
>
>> P.S. Cicero once announced to a crowd in the Forum Romanum the simple
>> word "Vixerunt" (they have lived). He'd just come back from the
>> execution of several sup****ters of Catilina. The audience had no
>> doubt
>> at all what he meant.
>
> It stands to reason that not all idiom is language specific.
> Like many languages share some words, many share some idiom.
>
> In a translation setting, however, you should not count on that.
>
> Better safe than sorry.
>
> --
> Evertjan.
> The Netherlands.
> (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)
I'm studying to become a Time Lord with the Intergalactic Federational
Institute for the Advancement of Man and the Promotion of Democracy. My
special area is first century BC Rome; why did the Republic collapse
into the Emperor****p? Why did the latter last so long? Why was it
tolerated?
You see, that became the prototype for all subsequent western tyrannies;
for Napoleon, for Mussolini and Hitler.
It's a puzzle that I haven't fathomed yet, even though I'm getting
closer and closer. And when I solve it I shall place my re****t before
the Council; and, if they accept my findings and recommended solution
for "tem****al restructuring", you'll all know soon enough. Because
Hitler and Cesare Borgia (and Gengis Khan, and Ivan the Terrible, and
Saddam Hussein) will all disappear from known history.
On second thoughts, maybe we won't know, because all that will disappear
from our minds and memories without any conscious awareness on our
parts.
Wish me luck. I'm working for us all.
Ed
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