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To: Salamander

FWIW, I took Latin and Greek in college, courses on ancient history, and the first thing I though of was “DOH!”

My profs are spinning.


11 posted on 07/04/2021 4:22:19 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla

Well, you’re in good [or pitiful] company, at least.

:D


14 posted on 07/04/2021 4:26:21 AM PDT by Salamander (I Ride By Night And I Travel In Fear, That In This Darkness, I Will Disappear....)
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To: mewzilla
"OHDA" ... there's a little pig-Latin for ya"


19 posted on 07/04/2021 5:46:01 AM PDT by CapnJack ( )
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To: mewzilla

The Anglo-Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock took Greek and Latin when he was in school. In one of his essays he brags that he can take a page of Greek or Latin and tell at a glance which it is.


23 posted on 07/04/2021 4:17:38 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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