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« Reply #585 on: August 16, 2012, 03:06:05 PM »
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« Reply #586 on: August 16, 2012, 03:58:14 PM »
The name Catullus is related with Cadillac.

Can't see or hear the name of Catullus without hearing "Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior." being recited rhythmically in my head.
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« Reply #587 on: August 16, 2012, 04:00:42 PM »
Catullus fortis fui  :viking:

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« Reply #588 on: August 16, 2012, 05:09:55 PM »
You read it here first, folks.

HAVE YOU SEEN DIET COKE'S NEW CAN DESIGN.....? Please Notice the "D" in the Word Diet. It is an all seeing "EYE" and the spiral pointed tail of the DEVIL'S tail this is a MARK of the illuminati and the "One World Order"......! THE "D" or in other words the DEVIL is on top of the "K" in the word COKE...THIS TELLS YOU THAT THE DEVIL WILL BE ON TOP OF THE " k" WHICH STANDS FOR THE NEW WORLD ORDER KINGS OF THE WORLD THAT WILL GOVERN BELOW SATIN "THE DEVIL" IN THIS NEW WORLD ORDER....DO NOT BE FOOLED...!!! THEY HAVE CONTROL OF THE COKE ORGANIZATION......BOYCOTT ALL COKE PRODUCTS...!!!! WAKE UP AMERICA...!!!! GET READY....GET READY BECAUSE EVERY COMPANY THAT THE ILLUMINATI CONTROLS IS SLOWLY ANNOUNCING IT'S SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES THIS WAY TO BRAINWASH YOU.....!!!!! GET READY.....!!!! THE DRUG IS SUGAR......IT IS POISON....!!!! and MAKES YOUR BRAIN FORGET ...UNTIL YOUR NUM......!!!!
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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #589 on: August 16, 2012, 05:12:00 PM »
Diet drinks are evil, they taste vile.  :M
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« Reply #590 on: August 17, 2012, 02:36:40 AM »
Spruce means "tree from (East) Prussia". It's unknown how the s got there, but "Pruce" is Medeival French for Prussia.

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« Reply #591 on: August 17, 2012, 03:13:12 AM »
Around 1400 the Swedish wowel system collapsed. Since then u is pronounced [ʉː] and o is pronounced [uː]. Before that the pronunciation was the same as in German still today. A similar but not completely identical development happened in all other Nordic languages. The Danish u is somewhere between the Swedish and the German.

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« Reply #592 on: August 17, 2012, 12:47:22 PM »
Wine is neuter - vinum - in Latin. In the Vulgate Latin it's masculine, though. It's also masculine in German.

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« Reply #593 on: August 18, 2012, 03:04:11 AM »
Arma - Latin for weapon - is plurale tantum. Nevertheless Italian has created the form armi.

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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #594 on: August 18, 2012, 10:20:17 AM »
Wine is neuter - vinum - in Latin. In the Vulgate Latin it's masculine, though. It's also masculine in German.

How appropriate.  Enough wine and you can't perform in bed.   :headbang2:
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« Reply #595 on: August 19, 2012, 03:58:05 PM »
The Latin names for colours are usually very simple. Blue is caeruleus, from caelus=sky. Red is ruber, from robur, which is hard oak, that is red inside. Green is viridis, which is related to virile, namely the virility of sprout.

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« Reply #596 on: August 22, 2012, 01:21:25 PM »
Graffiti from Pompei

The last people writing there died almost 2000 years ago. Yet it's pretty similar to modern grafitti  :laugh:

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« Reply #597 on: August 22, 2012, 05:00:41 PM »
This was posted on Television without Pity - Duggars section.  I had to laugh and love this dear, sweet little old lady.

"It's like when my, bless her heart, now deceased granny said she didn't understand gay relationships, because with two men, who would keep house? She was close to 100, lived on a farm most of her life, didn't care for TV, and the thought of physical affection between two people of the same sex never crossed her mind - she was worried they wouldn't get enough to eat, bless her heart. (She concluded that with two breadwinners, they could hire a housekeeper)."
 
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Re: random thread, for all that you can't find an appropriate thread for.
« Reply #598 on: August 22, 2012, 09:59:42 PM »
Supposedly the Pidgin English term for Shit is

Ash belongum fire. 
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« Reply #599 on: August 24, 2012, 02:23:32 PM »
Archaic Latin (75 BC-1000 BC) had more different forms for the feminine endings of the 1st declination, like ablative puellad. This is similar to weak German feminine nouns, that once had the ending -(e)n in all singular forms except the nominative.