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To: Verginius Rufus

I think it is generally agreed that the Romans did not eat, or even know about bananas. Which makes it kind of strange that they had a word for it in your sentence...


13 posted on 08/29/2015 11:22:12 AM PDT by FredZarguna ( "I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark Bar didn't COME OUT!!!")
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To: FredZarguna

There is what is known as New Latin, words added to express ideas (like America) unknown to the original speakers. In general, Indo-European languages like Latin used verb second order, with whatever element of the sentence the speaker wished to stress first. Personal pronouns were eschewed, because you know from the form of the verb the person and number (but not gender) of the referent.

The English word “EXIT” is Latin for “[He, she, or it] goes out.” “Exit” and “Exeunt” (”They go out”) were used as stage directions in theatrical scripts, when characters left the stage. The word “Exit” was adopted by Americans to mean “egress”, the cousins keeping the less wieldly “Way Out”, though they seem to coming around.


51 posted on 08/30/2015 4:16:56 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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