He was likely a linguist. On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 2:29 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> It should all be here in 4-5 days, plenty of time for assembling during > the February 18 Clinic. > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117726 > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233859 > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157754 > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811990012 > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817338010 > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=1W8-0032-00043 > > *Latin, commonly translated as 'the die is cast.' In fact, the English > expression refers to 'alea' as 'die' (one of a pair of dice), but the > Romans had no dice; the alea was a game piece that was thrown during > play, but it wasn't actually what we think of today as a die. And > while I'm at it, what idiot decided that the plural of die should be > dice? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
