Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/28

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Subject: [Leica] Chandos, How Could You!!!!
From: msmall at infionline.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Sat Aug 28 18:39:30 2004
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At 08:01 AM 8/28/04 +0200, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>All this reminds me of the torture that was Latin in 9th grade 
>(mandatory in Denmark at the time if you wanted to continue on to high 
>school). I used to ask our teacher what a motorcycle is called in Latin 
>and never received a satisfactory answer.

The Vatican suggests "bicycleus se incitante", or so I recall.  The Vatican
folks, in their spare time, have come up with a long list of modern terms
in Latin.  I suspect that this is probably available on the 'Net -- surely
SOME graduate student, somewhere, has a sense of humor.

Marc

msmall@infionline.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!




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