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- From: mike@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de (Mike Hoffmann)
- Newsgroups: de.talk.jokes
- Subject: Re: MP spezial
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:19:05 +0100
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG, AP 712
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- In article <1jonu3INN11c@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> rossi@cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Rosenkranz) writes:
- >ROEMER GEHT NACH HAUSE.
-
- C: What's this thing?
- "ROMANES EUNT DOMUS"?
- "People called Romanes they go the house"?
- B: It, it says "Romans go home".
- C: No it doesn't. What's Latin for "Roman"?
- B: (hesitates)
- C: Come on, come on!
- B: (uncertain) "ROMANUS".
- C: Goes like?
- B: "-ANUS".
- C: Vocative plural of "-ANUS" is?
- B: "-ANI".
- C: (takes paintbrush from Brian and paints over) "RO-MA-NI".
- "EUNT"? What is "EUNT"?
- B: "Go".
- C: Conjugate the verb "to go"!
- B: "IRE". "EO", "IS", "IT", "IMUS", "ITIS", "EUNT".
- C: So "EUNT" is ...?
- B: Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
- C: But "Romans, go home!" is an order, so you must use the ...?
- (lifts Brian by his hairs)
- B: The ... imperative.
- C: Which is?
- B: Ahm, oh, oh, "I", "I"!
- C: How many romans? (pulls harder)
- B: Plural, plural! "ITE".
- C: (strikes over "EUNT" and paints "ITE" to the wall)
- (satisfied) "I-TE".
- "DOMUS"? Nominative? "Go home", this is motion towards, isn't it, boy?
- B: (very anxious) Dative?
- C: (draws his sword and holds it to Brian's throat)
- B: Ahh! No, ablative, ablative, sir. No, the, accusative, accusative,
- ah, DOMUM, sir.
- C: Except that "DOMUS" takes the ...?
- B: ... the locative, sir!
- C: Which is?
- B: "DOMUM".
- C: (satisfied) "DOMUM" (strikes out "DOMUS" and writes "DOMUM") "-MUM".
- Understand?
- B: Yes sir.
- C: Now write it down a hundred times.
- B: Yes sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar, sir.
- C: (salutes) Hail Caesar.
- If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
- B: (very reliefed) Oh thank you sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar and
- everything, sir!
-
- Heil Thaethar!
- Mike
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