On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 15:13, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > The funny thing about Latin is that that Romans did not really write it > out in full, unlike Tim and Nordkyn. Too much bother (especially when > you had to carve it out in marble) and the language had a lot of > redundancy. Take the inscription on the Pantheon, which (IIRC) is > something like > M.AGRIPPA.L.F.CONS.TERT.FECIT > MARCUS AGRIPPA LUCIUS FELIUS CONSULR� TERTRIUM FECIT > Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, Consul for three times, built this.
So is that why "Joseph Ezriah Bloggs" can be referred to as "J. E. Bloggs" ?
