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- From: duck@nuustak.csir.co.za (Paul Ducklin)
- Subject: Re: Monty Python's Latin lesson from Life of Brian
- Organization: CSIR
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 16:48:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.164801.25828@nuustak.csir.co.za>
- References: <1992Jul22.204010.9691@microsoft.com> <1992Jul24.172202.6295@scott.skidmore.edu>
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- Thus spake rcape@scott.skidmore.edu (robert cape):
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- >Forgive me if I am wrong, but I think the quote goes like this,
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- > Brian writes: ROMANI EUNT DOMUS
- > Guard corrects to: ROMANI ITE DOMUM
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- Brian used DOMO, I think, and (definitely) ROMANES, because there was a
- short, one-sided exchange about the declension of ROMANxx.
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- Wasn't the bit about "towns and small islands" in the film, too?
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- Paul Ducklin
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