Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 09:37:20PM -0400, Marc James Small wrote: > 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. There is an intereresting selection in http://tinyurl.com/5w86h