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06-14-2007, 03:59 AM
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I forget the Latin for it, but "never speak ill of the dead" is a good thing to say if someone is giving you a hard time about your ill-advised drinking the night before.
I bet it was even used by hungover Romans. Or maybe the slaves on barf cleanup duty. *shudder* 
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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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