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3-Dec-2008 6:56:23 AM
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Given the pedantry usually encountered on this site, I think the label on the "forums" button should be changed to Fora, which is the correct plural of forum.
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3-Dec-2008 8:46:09 AM
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Should that be a capital "F" or lowercase?
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3-Dec-2008 8:52:30 AM
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Isn't that contrary to the spirit of a dynamic evolving language?
By all means let us shoot people for incorrect use of the apostrophe but don't become obsessed with insignificant matters
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3-Dec-2008 9:04:44 AM
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary
forum
/form/
• noun (pl. forums) 1 a meeting or medium for an exchange of views. 2 chiefly N. Amer. a court or tribunal. 3 (pl. fora) (in ancient Roman cities) a public square or marketplace used for judicial and other business.
— ORIGIN Latin, ‘what is out of doors’.
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3-Dec-2008 10:05:07 AM
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On 3/12/2008 Atomic_Tomatoes wrote:
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> — ORIGIN Latin, ‘what is out of doors’.
No wonder the Romans mainly climbed indoors - climbing in the forum was banned...
Escendo in forum est vexillum
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3-Dec-2008 11:42:00 AM
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I think the correct Latin syntax is "Escendo in forum vexillum est".
Latin is the ultimate pedant's language!
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3-Dec-2008 12:19:44 PM
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Isn't a pedant and ant you've just stepped on?
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3-Dec-2008 12:28:13 PM
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On 3/12/2008 widewetandslippery wrote:
>Isn't a pedant and ant you've just stepped on?
That would be an ant wouldn't it?
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3-Dec-2008 12:28:54 PM
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I stand corrected
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3-Dec-2008 12:47:35 PM
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
- Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.
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3-Dec-2008 1:12:09 PM
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On 3/12/2008 tnd wrote:
>I think the correct Latin syntax is "Escendo in forum vexillum est".
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>Latin is the ultimate pedant's language!
Neil, you need the ablative case, so it should be "in foro" not "in forum". Also "scendere" - to climb, would be better than escendo - I climb. I dont think vexillum is right either - probably "impermissus".
So it would be "Scendere in foro impermissus est".
Finally after 30 yrs of waiting, doing Latin for the HSC wasn't a waste of time after all!
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3-Dec-2008 1:43:32 PM
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I won't argue Mike, I did 5 years of it at school and passed the Brit equivalent of HSC, but 30 years has obviously wiped my memory more than yours!
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3-Dec-2008 3:53:37 PM
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When you wander up to Femroc wearing a coat, remember to take off your mantle before you do the
mantel.
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3-Dec-2008 4:15:31 PM
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Bah! What have the Romans ever done for us???
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3-Dec-2008 4:43:24 PM
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just to interject
"There are no conjunctions here; a semicolon probably should go between the forum and the est. Literally it says: I do (emphatic) ascend to the forum; there is a/the flag (red battle flag)."
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3-Dec-2008 9:54:59 PM
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On 3/12/2008 Pat wrote:
>On 3/12/2008 widewetandslippery wrote:
>>Isn't a pedant and ant you've just stepped on?
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>That would be an ant wouldn't it?
Or a preant. Or possibly the squish formally known as ant.
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3-Dec-2008 9:55:46 PM
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On 3/12/2008 Capt_mulch wrote:
>Bah! What have the Romans ever done for us???
Did they do anything on grit?
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3-Dec-2008 10:01:04 PM
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On 3/12/2008 Wendy wrote:
>On 3/12/2008 Capt_mulch wrote:
>>Bah! What have the Romans ever done for us???
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>Did they do anything on grit?
I think the FFA of Gaia was Janis Dawsius
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4-Dec-2008 8:57:10 AM
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On 3/12/2008 Wendy wrote:
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>Or a preant. Or possibly the squish formally known as ant.
Given the Thread Heading I can't help myself.
Shouldn't Wendy's last line read "Or possibly the squish formerly known as ant"?
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18-Mar-2009 1:16:36 PM
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