Maureen Dowd in Latin today
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Maureen Dowd in Latin today
Check out Maureen Dowd's column in Latin today at the NY Times website.
It's a hoot!
It's a hoot!
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Tot vitia illo in loco stultissima et jocosissima, quod omnia deliberata sunt arbitrandum est.
ethttp://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2008/10/12/opinion/12dowd.html?permid=253 wrote:For those whose Latin is a bit rusty, here's a translation, whose fidelity to Dowd's original is not much greater than hers to proper Latin usage. Yes, of course it's better in the original
There are so many silly and humourous mistakes in the piece, I guess you have to suppose them all intentional.http://mojohotel.blogspot.com/ wrote:I'll try to fill in the rest…without resorting to my Latin dictionary!...Maybe someone out there can clean it up for me.
Tot vitia illo in loco stultissima et jocosissima, quod omnia deliberata sunt arbitrandum est.
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"The penny has dropped" = "it has clicked" = "things have fallen into place" = "I have caught on" = "je pige" = "nunc rem vividâ imaginatione ad amussim repraesento" = "derepentè intellego" = "rem ante oculos propono"
OED wrote:g. the penny dropped and variants: a situation or statement has at last been understood; a person has reacted belatedly.
Originally used with allusion to the mechanism of a penny-in-the-slot machine.
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