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- From: bhat@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Timothy Alan Heath BELL)
- Subject: Latin (was Re: coming out to my parents)
- Message-ID: <9232513.21145@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <nsn.722034137@munagin> <9232313.29804@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <nsn.722057945@munagin> <1992Nov18.161959.20270@cbnews.cb.att.com> <nsn.722218106@munagin>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:35:37 GMT
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- nsn@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Nick Nicholas) writes:
- >eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (eleanor.j.evans) writes:
- >>In article <nsn.722057945@munagin> nsn@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Nick Nicholas) writes:
- >>>bhat@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Timothy Alan Heath BELL) writes:
- >>>>nsn@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Nick Nicholas) writes:
- >>>>>(Tim: it *is* 'mei', not 'michi'. Yes, I know it doesn't parse. Mediaeval
- >>>>>Latin; whaddaya expect? :)
- >>I lost track of the attributions in there, somewhere....
- >Well, gee, Piglet, were it Tim who said the above, why would'a address it
- >to Tim? No, strike that. He *is* wierd enough for that *sweet smile*.
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- >*Tim, put down the crowbar!*
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- >>But, isn't it "mihi", not "michi", that it would be if it weren't "mei"?
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- >Not necessarilamente. Mediaeval Latin, Piglet, and that's what actually
- >gets used in the manuscripts (and so Tim tells me, that's how you pronounce
- >_mihi_ in Church Latin anyway. Freaky...)
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- Only in Tudor English pronunciation of Church Latin, or so *I'm* told. And
- it's written "mihi" anyway... Personly, I think we should just listen to some
- recordings of the period.... :)
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- [...]
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- >>I'm so *confused*!!
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- >Hoc non mirabile est, quia *bisexualis* es! :)
- ^^^^^^^^^^ Shouldn't this be bisexuala ?
- (You can't escape gender in Latin... :)
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