Asheesh Laroia writes:
> Package: fortunes
> Version: 1.99.1-3
> X-Debbugs-CC: Seth David Schoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> The file /usr/share/games/fortunes/platitudes contains a typo in its
> Latin, according to Seth David Schoen. See the below email for more
> information.
Interestingly, the incorrect form "viditur" in this phrase is more
common in Google searches (perhaps because of this fortune file).
In case someone who wants to act on this bug doesn't know Latin and
is unsure which form is correct, I would refer you to p. 489 of
Barron's _501 Latin Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses_,
by Richard Prior and Joseph Wohlberg (ISBN 0812090500), which
explains that the passive of the verb video has the meaning "to
seem" and that the third person singular present passive indicative
form is "vidētur" -- there is no form "viditur".
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