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06-14-2007, 10:51 AM
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That one's "de mortuis nil nisi bonum [dicendum est]." I learned it from Naomi Chana, a favourite Angel commentator of mine, who paraphrased it as "you don't talk smack about dead people."
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06-14-2007, 11:13 AM
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Well, okay, Z...
Sumus Quod Sumus ("we are what we are," the motto of Lake Wobegon) is sort of my default reply whenever Latin comes up, even tangentially.
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06-14-2007, 03:01 PM
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It was a greek saying originally,first spakethed by Chilon of Sparta.
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
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06-14-2007, 04:36 PM
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Quote:
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06-14-2007, 06:41 PM
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El stampinium thingamanus.
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06-18-2007, 09:14 AM
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To get back to the original question...
Potato.
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06-19-2007, 12:15 AM
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A fish?
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06-19-2007, 03:50 AM
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Three fish.
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06-19-2007, 04:49 AM
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Ha! Full house, aces over!
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06-19-2007, 10:52 AM
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Sorry, but my Royal Fizzbin trumps all!
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06-19-2007, 12:25 PM
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Not so fast.
Octavo. Read 'em and weep 
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06-19-2007, 05:10 PM
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*reads it and explodes*
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06-19-2007, 09:14 PM
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Allameraine!
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06-19-2007, 10:56 PM
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Hmm, what word is so powerful, so shocking that it trumps "allamaraine?"
NI!
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06-20-2007, 01:12 PM
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Curses.
I shall have to say to you: jujuflop.
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06-20-2007, 04:50 PM
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Sorry, but I think Ni trumps all. Jujuflop is down there with shazbot.
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06-20-2007, 10:29 PM
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You force my hand.
Belgium, or if that won't do it... ...Nephelokokkygian!
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06-21-2007, 11:20 AM
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Ooooh, Ni versus Belgium, there's a poll waiting to be made by someone else.
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06-22-2007, 04:37 PM
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Aaaand that brings me neatly round to...
Mornington Crescent.
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06-23-2007, 06:33 AM
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Win awards!
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